Postdoctoral Fellows

Rawan Arar

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: International migration, refugee studies, law, human rights, race and ethnicity, gender, inequality, conflict and post-conflict societies.

Nicholas Barnes

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Organized Crime, Political Violence, Public Security, Urban Development, Social Movements, Latin America.

• +1 319 440 2766
• nicholas_barnes@brown.edu

Jennifer Greenburg

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Critical human geography, development studies, humanitarianism, US militarism, Haiti, gender.

• +1 401 863 9740
• jennifer_greenburg@brown.edu

Almita Miranda

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Cultural and political anthropology, race/ethnicity, gender, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, social movements, Latina/o mixed-status families, U.S., Mexico.

• +1 401 863 2216
• almita_miranda@brown.edu

Anthony Pratcher II

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Relations

Areas of Interest: American history, American Southwest, metropolitan studies, spatial analysis, identity construction, community formation, civic governance, urban policy.

• anthony_pratcher@brown.edu

Aarti Sethi

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: South-Asia, anthropology, agrarian change, peasant studies, social movements, cinema, media and visual culture.

• aarti_sethi@brown.edu

Aileen Teague

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: U.S.-Latin America (Mexico) relations, drug control, national security policy, militarization, migration, political violence.

Adaner Usmani

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Labor and social movements, democratization, crime and incarceration, quantitative methods.

• adaner.usmani@gmail.com

Dario Valles

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Public/private infrastructures, race, feminist theory, children/youth, intimate labor, social movements, political economy, Latin American migration and diaspora, anthropology of the Americas, household ethnography.

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Information technology and development, governance, politics of transparency and surveillance, inequality, civic technology, social theory, political economy of development.

• rajesh_veeraraghavan@brown.edu

Luyang Zhou

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Comparative historical sociology, empire, nationalism, revolution, Russia and China.