Anne-Claire Defossez
Institute forAdvanced Study Sociology
W-314 Ext. 8364
adefossez@ias.edu
Anne-Claire Defossez is a sociologist who has been conducting a research on migration during 5 years at the border between Italy and France. Based on this ethnography her work this year will be focused on solidarity practices toward exiles and their evolution in a context of growing repressive policies.
Rebio Dfaz Cardona
Visitor
W-117
Environmental Psychology, Social Ext. 4527
Theory, Puerto Rican Studies rdiazcordona@ias.edu
Rebio Diaz Cardona is an environmental psychologist interested in grassroots placemaking and self-management projects in Puerto Rico, and the geographies of writing in urban contexts. While at IAS he will work on a series of essays on Puerto Rican society, blending personal narrative with insights from social and environmental psychology.
Didier Fassin
Faculty Anthropology, Sociology
W-303 Ext. 8251
dfassin@ias.edu
Didier Fassin will develop two main projects during the year. The first one addresses questions related to the theme of the School « Politics of migration and displacement as a form of life », following a five-year ethnography of exile, repression and solidarity at the border between Italy and France in the Alps The second one focuses on violence from an anthropological perspective, which will be the topic of ten lectures at the Collège de France, concluded by an international conference on « The ghosts of the war in Gaza ».
Iymon Majid
Institute for Advanced Study Political Science
W-336
Ext. 8274
imajid@ias.edu
Iymon Majid is a political scientist with a focus on comparativepoliticaltheory and modern SouthAsia. At IAS, he will be working on a new projectstudying therelationshipbetweenlaw, politics, and religion in Kashmir.
Jeanne Morefield
University of Oxford PoliticalTheory
W-327
Ext. 8253
jmorefield@ias.edu
Jeanne Morefield's research interests sit at the intersection of political theory, global intellectual history, and international relations. While at IAS, she will research the historical and contemporary relationship/overlap between sex trafficking panics, the liberal internationalist imaginary, and fascist conspiracy theories.
Ahmad Qais Munhazim
Thomas Jefferson University PoliticalScience W-311 Ext. 8277
amunhazim@ias.edu
Ahmad Oais Munhazim is an interdisciplinary scholar of migration, war, gender, and sexuality studies. At IAS, Munhazim will work on their book project based on a de/colonial ethnography of displacement(s) in the lives of recentlyevacuated queer and trans Afghan refugees in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Ireland.
