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Helena Zeweri
University of British Columbia
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
North America
Other
Specialties
Migration, Borders, And Empire
Social Policy, Carcerality, Kinship
Australia, US, Afghan Diaspora, Islam
Languages
Dari (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Education
DPhil | 2020 | Anthropology | Rice University
MA | 2013 | Anthropology | The New School for Social Research
MA | 2010 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2008 | Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, Pol.S | Columbia University
Abstracts
Defining 'Afghanness': The Politics of Claiming and Performing Identity Within the Afghan Diaspora in New York
Precarious Progress: The Politics of Fear and Loss in Afghan Women’s Empowerment Programs
The Political Afterlife of Offshore Detention in the Afghan Diaspora in Australia
