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About Yasemin Ipek
Yasemin İpek is an Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Stanford University and a second doctoral degree from the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University. Her book "Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures" (Stanford University Press, 2025) explicates the relationship between crisis and political imagination by examining the popularization of activism in contemporary Lebanon. For her second book-length research project, she is studying transnational humanitarianism in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Center for Humanities Research at George Mason University, among others. She teaches on a wide range of subjects such as globalization, anthropology of the Middle East, refugees and humanitarianism, Islam, youth, activism and social movements, and qualitative research methods. Her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, The Muslim World, and Turkish Studies.
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March 9, 2025
Fantasmic Objects
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Le…