Date:
Location:
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present
Natalia Gutkowski
Postdoctoral scholar, The Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator: Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Natalia Gutkowski is a social anthropologist and a political ecologist working on interfaces of state governance and power in the agrarian environment in Palestine/Israel and beyond. Gutkowski is a postdoctoral scholar at The Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She held a prior postdoctoral appointment at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies where she began developing her second book research entitled “Species Remaking Borders: Climate Change and the Regional Challenge in the Middle East”. Gutkowski’s doctoral dissertation won the Land Theme Award of Cornell’s Institute for the Social Science and the Israeli Anthropological Association’s Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her articles were published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Society. Her book Settling Time: Agrarian Imaginaries, Sustainability and Survival in Israel/Palestine is currently under review with Stanford University Press.
Contact: Liz Flanagan