Foroogh Farhang

Foroogh Farhang is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont specializing in migration, border studies, and Middle Eastern anthropology. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University and an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University.

Her research examines:

• Border governance and forced migration in Lebanon
• Syrian refugee communities and burial practices
• Transnational care networks
• Palestinian refugee contexts

Supported by grants from the NSF, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Max Weber Foundation, her ethnographic work investigates how displaced communities develop alternative social structures beyond formal humanitarian frameworks.