Miriam Ticktin

Miriam Ticktin holds a joint position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at NSSR 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. She received her BA in Anthropology with minors in Women's Studies and European Cultural Studies from Princeton, an M. Phil in English Literature from Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford, and a PhD in Anthropology (done in co-tutelle with Stanford) with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. 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 has recently completed a book manuscript entitled, "A Moral Emergency Complex: Humanitarianism, Sexual Violence and the Politics of Immigration in France" and is co-editor (with Ilana Feldman) of a volume called “In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care” which is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2010.
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