Publications

Peutz, Nathalie. Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. Winner: 2019 MES Book Award, conferred by the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; Honorable Mention, 2019 AGAPS Book conferred by the Association for Gulf and Arabian Studies.

De Genova, Nicholas. and Nathalie Peutz, eds.  The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Winner: 2011 Bronze Award, The Association for Borderlands Studies.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Refugees like us: Arab African encounters at a migratory crossroads." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 15, no. 2 (2025): 499-502.

Brown, Hera Jay, Malay Firoz, Nathalie Peutz, and Jennifer Riggan. "Incubating Futures: Temporal Violence, Durable Solutions, and the Anti-Refugee Machine." Migration and Society 8, no. 1 (2025): 23-39.

Peutz, Nathalie. “The Fault of Our Grandfathers”: Yemen's Third-Generation Migrants Seeking Refuge from Displacement." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 51, no. 3 (2019): 357-376. doi:10.1017/S0020743819000370

Peutz, Nathalie. "Heritage in (the) Ruins." (Roundtable Contribution and Editor: "Heritage in Crisis.") International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 4 (2017), 721-728.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Targeted Women and Barred Development in Soqotra, Yemen" Arabian Humanities. Revue internationale d’archéologie et de sciences sociales sur la péninsule Arabique/International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula 1 (2013).

Peutz, Nathalie. "Revolution in Soqotra: a Perspective from Yemen’s Periphery." Middle East Report 263 (2012): 14-20.

Peutz, Nathalie. "“Shall I Tell You What Soqotra Once Was?”: World Heritage and Sovereign Nostalgia in Yemen’s Soqotra Archipelago" Transcontinentales. Sociétés, idéologies, système mondial 10/11 (2011).
Translated into French as “‘Voulez-vous que je vous raconte la Socotra d’autrefois?’ Patrimoine mondial et nostalgia souveraine dans l’archipel de Socotra au Yémen.” Trans. Aziliz Gouez.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Bedouin “Abjection”: World Heritage, Worldliness, and Worthiness at the Margins of Arabia." American Ethnologist 38, no. 2 (2011): 338-360.

Peutz, Nathalie M. "Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Suqutra and the Gulf" Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée 121-122 (2008): 163-182.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Out-laws: Deportees, Desire, and “The Law.." International migration 45, no. 3 (2007): 182-191.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Embarking on an Anthropology of Removal, with “CA* Commentary” and a “Reply by the Author.”" Current Anthropology 47(2) (2006): 217-241.

Peutz, Nathalie and Angie Heo. “Refugee: Yemenis Navigating Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Afro-Asian Circuit.” In Ross Porter, ed. Concept and Critique: Essays for a Political Anthropology of Yemen, Syracuse University Press (2025), pp. 168–210.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Small Things.” In Migration, Displacement and Higher Education, Now What? eds. Brittany Murray, Matthew Brill-Carlat, Maria Höhn. Palgrave Macmillan (2023), pp. 279–293.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Crisis as Pre-Existing Condition: Yemen between Cholera, Coronavirus, and Starvation.” In Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, eds. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade, Chicago: Hau Books (2021), pp. 295– 319

Peutz, Nathalie. Introduction (with Nicholas De Genova). The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, edited by Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz. Durham: Duke University Press (2010), pp. 1-19.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Criminal Alien” Deportees in Somaliland: An Ethnography of Removal. In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, edited by Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz. Durham: Duke University Press (2010), pp. 371-409.

Peutz, Nathalie. Of Goats and Foreigners: Research Lessons on Soqotra Island, Yemen. In Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Anthropologists in a Changing World, edited by Andrew Gardner and David Hoffman. Long Grove,IL: Waveland Press (2006), pp. 79-97.

Ian Hoyt, Moustapha Nour-Ayeh, Aisha al-Sarihi, Dheaya Al-Rousan, Muez Ali, Nathalie Peutz, and Alden Young. “Possibilities and Constraints of Collaborative Research in the Red Sea Arena during Covid.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council (2022), March 29.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Free Citizens to Real Refugees: Yemeni Minorities at the Margins in 2011 and 2021.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council (2022), December 7.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Gate of Tears.” The Berlin Journal, a magazine from the American Academy in Berlin 34 (2020): 64–66.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Teaching the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings: A Roundtable [with John M. Willis, Sumita Pahwa, Pete Moore, Heather Ferguson, and Jessica Winegar].” JadMag: The Pedagogy Edition 7 (2) (2019): 31–38.

Peutz, Nathalie. “The importance of listening.” A comment on Heath Cabot’s “The Business of Anthropology and the European Refugee Regime,” American Ethnologist 46 (3) (2019): 276–77.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Markazi: A Camp at a Crossroads.” Europe Now. Council for European Studies (CES), Issue 25 (2019).

Peutz, Nathalie. “Nathalie Peutz on AIYS [American Institute for Yemeni Studies].” AIYS at 40 Years. Yemen Webdate Blog. September 4, 2018.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Perspectives from the Margins of Arabia,” in “Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula,” eds. Rosie Bsheer and John Warner, JADMAG Pedagogy Publications 1 (1) (2013): 25–29. Tadween Publishing.

Peutz, Nathalie, Theorizing the Arabian Peninsula Roundtable: Perspectives from the Margins of Arabia. Jadaliyya (online). April 22, 2013.

Peutz, Nathalie. "Signpost in Somaliland’s Quest for Sovereignty. " Middle East Report Online, September 28, 2005.

Peutz, Nathalie. “Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments.” Allegra Lab. June (2024).

Peutz, Nathalie. “Does a Myth of Biological Progress Also Assail the History of Human Progress?” Essay on The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The Wire. Science. September 5 (2022).

Peutz, Nathalie. “Play astronauts and actual refugees.” Essay on The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere. Social Science Research Council, August 4 (2022).

Peutz, Nathalie. Laurent Bonnefoy, Salafism in Yemen. In Arabian Humanities. International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula 1 (online).

Peutz, Nathalie. Marina de Regt, Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5(1) (2009): 105-108.