معرفی
Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester’s Department of Social Anthropology. Her research focuses on postwar sociality, border studies, kinship, displacement, and Middle East political dynamics. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2006) and served as Director of the BA Social Science Programme (2012-2016). She co-founded and edits the Contemporary Levant journal (2016) and collaborates internationally with organizations like the American University of Beirut’s ESDU and UN-ESCWA. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty reduction and sustainable development. Awards include the BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2018). She supervises doctoral projects on themes like Middle Eastern statehood, migration, and food systems.
Research Interests: postwar sociality, state-borders, kinship-gender dynamics, displacement, and migrant integration. She has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, London, and the Middle East, exploring topics like Palestinian displacement and Lebanese-Syrian border communities. Key publications include Border Lives (2019) and Migrants in Anchorage (forthcoming).
- Education: PhD Anthropology, LSE (2006); Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Manchester (2007-2011).
- Grants: BA/Leverhulme Fellowship (2018) supporting research on Palestinian families in London.
- Collaborations: ESDU (AUB), UN-ESCWA, CBRL, Lund University.
- Labs/Teams: Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Levant; member of CBRL board.
