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Mandana Limbert is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), with additional affiliations in the Committee on Globalization and Social Change and the executive committee of the Middle East and Middle East American Center at the Graduate Center. She joined CUNY in 2002 following completion of her PhD at the University of Michigan.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2002
Professor Limbert specializes in political and historical anthropology of the Arabian Peninsula and Western Indian Ocean, with deep expertise in Oman's oil-driven modernization. Her research examines infrastructure development, environmental transformations, Islamic piety, and temporality within post-colonial state formation, while also exploring Indian Ocean mobility, racial dynamics, and marriage practices. Current work analyzes carbon capture technologies and conspiracy theories through anthropological lenses, extending her longstanding investigation of unseen worlds and resource politics.
Her major publications include the monograph In the Time of Oil (Stanford University Press, 2010) and the edited volume Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), with a forthcoming book Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab under contract with Stanford University Press. She has contributed to leading journals including Social Text, Ethnos, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Cultural Anthropology.
Notable recognitions include:
- Induction into the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2023)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2016-17)
- CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship (2018)
Professor Limbert has secured major research funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and CUNY ARC. As Graduate Center faculty, she mentors advanced anthropology students while teaching undergraduate courses including Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Peoples of the Middle East, and Contemporary Anthropological Theory. Her work continues to shape understandings of Middle Eastern modernity through collaborative academic initiatives and committee leadership.
