Please join us in welcoming Zainab Saleh, who will serve as the Huford Center's Koshland Director for the next three years!
Zainab Saleh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Koshland Director of John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College. She is the author of Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford University Press, 2021. Winner of The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award at the Arab American Book Award). Her second book, The Cunning of Citizenship in Iraq: Uprootedness, Erasure, and Reclamation, is currently under review with Stanford University Press. She is a co-editor of Iraq Unruled: Being Between Rule and Revolution, under contract with Edinburgh University Press. Her recent book project, titled A Will to Ignorance: The Commemoration of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in Mainstream Media in the United States, has been solicited by I.B.Tauris/Bloomsbury. Her work also appeared in American Anthropologist, Arab Studies Journal, Anthropology News, Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, Costs of War project with Brown University, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Palestine/Israel Review, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Thanks to outgoing Director Gustavus Stadler for three wonderful years and his many contributions to the Center, including the yearlong programs "Imagining Abolitionist Futures" and "Sonic Worlds"; our ongoing VCAMbient listening series; and many, many more initiatives. Stay tuned for reflections from Professor Stadler in our upcoming Year in Review book.
