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.
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