Zohra Ismail Beben

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Background

Zohra Ismail Beben, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is a doctoral candidate in environmental anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.  Her areas of interest include anthropology of disaster, discourses of risk, political ecology, space and place, natural resource management and anthropology of development in rural Tajikistan.  Her current project based on seventeen months of fieldwork is an ethnography of culture change in the mountainous regions of post-Soviet Tajikistan.