4, GRADUATE FELLOW, GRADUATE -A-C, Women Mobilizing Memory
Tamer Marshood
Bürge Abiral

Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, Sabanci University

Bürge Abiral is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her BA from Williams College and her MA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University, Turkey. Her research interests include human- environment relations, climate change, agriculture, political violence, and gender and sexuality. Her translation of Toward an Anthropology of Women (ed.

Bürge Abiral
VISITING FELLOW, VISITING -A-B
Tamer Marshood
Fariba Adelkhah

Fellow, Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Fariba Adelkhah is Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, 1989).  An anthropologist, her main research interests focus on the relationships and interplay between social changes and political transformations throughout the second half of the 20th century in Iran.

Fariba Adelkhah
VISITING -A-B, RGFGV
Tamer Marshood
Nissreen Haram

Fellow, Economics, Mount Holyoke College

Nissreen Haram holds a B.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and an M.A. in Islamic Studies from McGill University in Montreal. She has had a diverse career as a Trade Policy Advisor, Law Firm Director, Children’s Museum Director, and Artisan Cheese maker. She has also been member of the Yale Law School Middle East Seminar, and its organizing committee for more than 15 years. She is actively interested in Islamic legal and intellectual history, and contemporary approaches to religious reform.

4, GRADUATE FELLOW, GRADUATE -A-C
Tamer Marshood
Kata Ámon

PhD Student, Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest

Kata Ámon
Faculty, VISITING -A-B, RURAL URBAN INTERFACE
Tamer Marshood
Delali Margaret Badasu

Fellow, Geography, University of Ghana

Delali Margaret Badasu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. She specializes in demography, geography, and medical geography. 

Delali Margaret Badasu

FUTURE OF DISABILITY

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Ariel Merkel

Sociology, The New School for Social Research

Ariel Merkel is a Sociology PhD candidate at the New School for Social Research, with a focus on disability studies.  She earned her MA at NSSR in May 2011, and holds a BA (cum laude) in Cultural Anthropology from Wells College, a small women’s college in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.  Upon graduation in 2005, she was awarded the Carter A. Woods Prize for her thesis, which analyzed the strategies of Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiian) activists involved in the Cultural Revitalization Movement.