With the closing of another academic year just around the corner, many of our department’s members’ amazing efforts are coming to life. It has been a pleasure to see such inspiring work unfold. With this in mind, we would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the special groups we are grateful to have as part of our community.
The Department of Anthropology’s Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellows are just one of the groups deserving of a spotlight. This postdoctoral fellowship aims to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition at multi- or interdisciplinary levels through advanced training and international and intersectoral mobility. Such postdoctoral fellowships are expected to add significantly to the development of the best and most promising researchers active in Europe in order to enhance and maximize their contribution to the knowledge-based economy and society as well as strengthen the contact network of both the researcher and the Third Country partner organization (i.e., Harvard).
Our current Marie Curie fellows have brought their brilliant perspectives and experience to the department over the past year. As such, we’d like to take a moment share more about their work, unique backgrounds, and varied research interests.
Apostolos Andrikopoulos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at the University of Amsterdam. His project “Marriage, Migration and Sexuality: African Migrants in Interracial Same-sex Partnerships” explores how the new possibility to migrate through same-sex marriage has shaped the aspirations, subjectivities and social relations of Ghanaians and Kenyans in same-sex partnerships. Previously, Andrikopoulos conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Europe (Netherlands, Greece) and Africa (Ghana, Kenya) on issues of kinship, migration and sexuality. He is author of “Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe” (University of Chicago Press, 2023), a book that examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. His work appears in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnography and City & Society.
You can find more here: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/apostolos-andrikopoulos
Myriam Lamrani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. A multimodal anthropologist, her interdisciplinary scholarship examines artistic and religious images in political contexts, particularly in relation to nationalism and revolutionary uprisings. In 2019, she received the J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art (RAI) for her work examining Mexican migration to the US in relation to decolonial theories. Her forthcoming book, Intimate Images. Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Mexico, explores the relationships between death imagery and violence in Mexico through an exploration of devotion to La Santa Muerte. This Spring Term (2023) she teaches a course on popular devotion in the Americas at the Harvard Extension School. Myriam’s current research project is a comparative study of Greek and Mexican national imaginaries considered through images of migration. Her work has been published in Focaal, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, and American Ethnologist.
You can find more here: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/myriam-lamrani
Elisa Tamburo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist specialized in urban and environmental anthropology in China, Taiwan, and East Africa. Her current research investigates practices of planning and dwelling in Nairobi, Kenya, vis à vis infrastructure funded and built by Chinese actors. Elisa previous ethnographic research in Taiwan investigated the relocation of a historical settlement to high-rise apartment blocks. The book manuscript based on this research Exiled in the City: Belonging, Loss, and the Politics or Urban Relocation in in a Taipei Military Village examines how three generations of mainlander Chinese exiled to Taiwan in 1949 negotiate their political identity, belonging, and their past in the aftermath of urban displacement. Her work has been published in Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
You can find more here: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/elisa-tamburo