Dr. Michelle Obeid

Biography

Michelle Obeid completed her PhD in Anthropology at the London School of Economics in 2006 and began her academic career with a four-year Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Study of Arab World, University of Manchester, in 2007. She joined the Department of Social Anthropology as a full-time Lecturer in 2011. Obeid has conducted extensive ethnographic research in northeastern Lebanon and London, focusing on postwar border sociality, livelihoods, kinship, and displacement. From 2012 to 2016, she served as the Director of a new BA Social Science Programme, collaborating across six departments. Her work is heavily engaged with international collaborations, notably with the Environmental Sustainable Development Unit at the American University of Beirut and the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Obeid has published several book chapters and articles, and her research interests include postwar sociality, state borders, kinship, mobility, and displacement. She was awarded a BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2018 to support her manuscript entitled "Migrants Anchorage: Ethnography Palestinians London."

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