Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Nathalie Peutz | Outcasts to Refugees: Yemen's Racialized Hierarchies in Exile

Nathalie Peutz is an associate professor of anthropology and Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi, where she manages the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World. Her research examines the impacts of conflict-induced displacement, the climate crisis, environmental conservation projects, social marginalization, and racial borders in the Western Indian Ocean region. Peutz is the author of Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford University Press, 2018) and co-editor (with Nicholas de Genova) of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement(Duke University Press, 2010). In AY25-26, she is the Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.