Kerem Uşşaklı

Kerem Uşşaklı is a junior research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. He is a political anthropologist, writing on the possibilities of inter-ethnic sociality in the light of histories of war and dispossession in the racialized and securitized contemporary Middle East. His current book project, tentatively titled Civility After Dispossession: Politics of Decolonization in the Kurdish-Iraqi Borderlands, is an ethnography of the performances of civility displayed by formerly dispossessed Iraqi Kurds and displaced Iraqi Arabs after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is a work that investigates how the history of political violence in the Garmiyan Region and the disputed territories of Iraq is lived out in the present. He is also researching the nexus of digital sovereignty, authoritarian populism, and practices of evasion from the state in Turkey. He received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.