Faculty

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, Program Head, Music; 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

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...

Jonathan Shannon, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Affiliation: Visiting
Email: jhs7@nyu.edu
Education: BA Stanford University; PhD CUNY

Research Interests: Arab world; Mediterranean; Music; Arts; Aesthetics; Migration; Food