Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium: Eda Pepi

Event time: 
Monday, March 7, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Event description: 

A Conversation with Eda Pepi

A conversation with Eda Pepi, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. (Talk details coming soon)

More about Dr. Pepi
Eda Pepi is a sociocultural anthropologist of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, where she works at the intersections of feminist studies, political anthropology, and the anthropology of kinship. She also holds a secondary appointment in Anthropology. Her research and publications focus broadly on the cultural and historical processes through which gender, ethnicity, citizenship, sovereignty, and the state have been forged in contemporary MENA territories, as well as across the Class A League of Nations mandates in the Middle East (1917–1948).

Pepi is at work on a book about marriage, ethnicity, and gendered citizenship in Jordan. It explores how states manage political and economic problems, like statelessness, through families. The research examines ethnographically how Jordan polices its borders by regulating the marital and reproductive choices of Jordanian women, showing that our understandings of the state cannot stand separate from analyses of gender and kinship. She is currently also developing a second ethnographic project on gender, marriage, and race in North Africa. This book project will shine ethnographic light on mixed-race and mixed-nationality families at borderlands across the Sahara.

View the full spring schedule and registration here.