Peter S. Habib
Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program
61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Habib holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Emory University. His work investigates how complex and ruinous environmental realities become appropriated into politicized narratives, often serving nationalist purposes. His current book project, titled Fluid Subjects: Displacement, Governance, and the Social Life of Water in Lebanon, investigates the entanglement of refugee life and water politics in contemporary Lebanon.
Research Interests: Environment; water; humanitarianism; infrastructure; migration; nationalism; political belonging; critical development studies; religion and Christianity; and modern Middle East and North Africa.