Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Vassar College
Box 701, 124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie
NY
12604
United States
ABOUT
China Sajadian is the Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Smith College and incoming Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. Bridging migration studies, agrarian political economy, feminist and women’s studies, and economic anthropology, her current book project traces the relationship between debt, displacement, and rural inequality across the Lebanese-Syrian border. Her research has been supported by the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Foundation, the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her writing has been awarded prizes by the Association for Feminist Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society, the Society for Economic Anthropology, the Moise A. Khayrallah Center, and the CUNY Graduate Center Women’s Studies Program. She received her PhD in Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2022.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Labor History
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Mashreq
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Agrarian Studies
Refugees And Migration
Labor
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Anthropology
| CUNY Graduate Center
MA
| 2014
| Anthropology
| Columbia University
BA
| 2008
| Government
| Smith College
Abstracts
Between nostalgia and futures-otherwise: Performances of memory in Lebanon’s railway ruins
The Drowned and the Saved: Histories of the maghmureen in Eastern Syria
“Men Don’t Weed”: The Agrarian Question of Debt among Syrian Refugee-Farmworkers in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
The Value of “Girls’ Hands”: Crises of Agrarian Reproduction in Lebanon’s Biqa’ Valley
