Professor Dr. Andrew Shryock

Biography

Andrew Shryock is a cultural anthropologist specializing in ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen, Jordan, and Arab Muslim communities in Detroit. His research in the Middle East centers on nationalism, historicity, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, and modernity, encompassing cultural politics and alternative forms. In North America, his work focuses on ethnicity, mass-mediated culture, diaspora, community formation, and identity politics. Shryock is active in public cultural work, particularly in documentary films, museum exhibitions, and collaborative, community-based research and writing projects. He has addressed the moral and political dimensions of hospitality and is interested in developing new methods to write about the ancient past and the human experience, fostering a rethinking of the relationships among anthropology, history, and the natural sciences. In 2006, he edited a journal titled Comparative Studies in Society and History. Shryock has received several awards for his contributions to teaching and scholarship, including the John Dewey Teaching Award and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

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