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Irina Levin is a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in migration studies, the anthropologies of law and the state, and political theories of sovereignty and mobility. Levin's ethnographic fieldwork has focused on forcibly displaced communities in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, addressing issues of disputed citizenship, legacies of displacement, and narratives of collective trauma. Her work examines how displaced individuals make legal and moral claims to stability in precarious situations, highlighting the limitations of human rights and the state-centered nature of immigration and citizenship law. Levin's research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Research Exchanges Board, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Before joining Princeton, she spent seven years at Arizona State University, beginning her career as a postdoctoral scholar at the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, later serving as Associate Director and Director of a summer intensive language program. In 2022, she joined the faculty of Barrett, the Honors College, where she developed and taught interdisciplinary humanities seminars and directed honors theses on a wide range of topics.
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