Mellon Fellows
Maya Mikdashi (2014-16)
Maya received her Ph.D. from Columbia University's Department of Anthropology. Her dissertation, entitled "Sex, Secularism and Sectarianism: Practicing Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon," is an ethnography of the Lebanese legal system and of the entanglements between gender, sex, and sectarianism. She is also Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. She works at the intersection of legal anthropology, feminism, queer theory, and theories of secularism and religion.
Former Mellon Fellows
Annie Fukushima (2013-15)
Nadia Guessous (2012-14)
Aren Aizura (2011-2013)
See Also
Rockefeller Resident Fellows in the Humanities 1986-1989 and 1998-2001