Miriam Ticktin
Miriam Ticktin (PhD Stanford/Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) holds a joint position as Assistant
Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Graduate Program
in International Affairs. Before coming to the New School, she was
Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the
University of Michigan, and also held a postdoctoral position in the
Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and a fellowship at the
International Center for Advanced Study at NYU. Her research interests
include anthropology
of the human and humanitarianism; migration, camps and borders; sexual
violence/violence against women; PTSD/trauma, psychiatric
humanitarianism; anthropology of science, medicine, ethics; and her
areas of focus are France, Europe and North Africa. Her articles appear in American Ethnologist, SIGNS, Interventions, Ethnicities, The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, The Scholar and Feminist Online, and Women: A Cultural Review.
She is currently completing a book manuscript on undocumented
immigrants and humanitarianism in France, and is co-editor (with Ilana
Feldman) of a volume called “ Government and Humanity” which is
forthcoming with Duke University Press.
currently teachingin Spring 2009 will be teaching
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