Research Interests

Intimacy, popular devotion, multimodal anthropology, images, political violence, revolution, filmmaking, and popular culture.

Dr. Lamrani holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London (2018). She is currently a Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at both Harvard University and Panteion University where her research focuses on the impact of images on national imaginaries in Greece and Mexico.

She is the recipient of the J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art (2019). When she is not teaching a course titled “Popular Devotion: Anthropology of Images in Mexico and the Americas” at the Harvard Extension School, she is working on a book-length manuscript about images, intimacy, and La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Mexico.