Faculty

  • Samuel Mark Anderson, Lecturer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sma326@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of Washington; MA New York University; PhD University of California Los Angeles

    Research Interests: visual ethnography; aesthetics; politics; performance; media; postcolonial theory; violence; war; hu...

  • Marzia Balzani, Program Head, Anthropology; Research Professor of Anthropology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mb4412@nyu.edu
    Education: BA King’s College, London University; MSt (Master of Studies), DPhil University of Oxford

    Research Interests: ritual and kingship in northern India, diasporic Islam in the UK and Pakistan

  • Andrew J. Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music; Global Network Associate Professor of Music Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: aje2000@nyu.edu
    Education: BMus New York University; MA, PhD Columbia University

    Research Interests: anthropology of music; anthropology of sound; African popular music; sound and space; ethnicity and ...

  • George Jose, Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: gj29@nyu.edu
    Education: Joint PhD, National University of Singapore (NUS) and King’s College London (KCL)

    Research Interests: Urban Peripheries, Creative Cities

  • Munira Khayyat, Clinical Associate Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: munira.khayyat@nyu.edu
    Education: BA American University of Beirut; MPhil Cambridge University; PhD Columbia University

    Research Interests: War, ecologies, resistance, Landscape, oil, theory from the south, ethnographic writing

  • Ram Natarajan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: vn327@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Johns Hopkins University; MA New York University; PhD New York University

    Research Interests: Violence; non-violence; memory; trauma; law; literature; translation; Argentina; India

  • Susan Marie Ossman, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Visiting Professor of Movements and Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: smo7149@nyu.edu
    Education: AB UC Berkeley, DEA U Paris VII, MA UC Berkeley, PhD UC Berkeley

    Research Interests: Mobility, subjectivity; globalization; gender; art and scholarship

  • Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology; Network Associate Professor of Anthropology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: npeutz@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Princeton University

    Research Interests: forced migration and displacement; mobility and immobility; conservation and development; identity a...