Key Qualifications

Stephen Lubkemann (PhD. Brown University 2000) is an assistant professor of Anthropology and of International Affairs at The George Washington University and the associate editor of Anthropological Quarterly. Lubkemann is also one of the co-founders of the GW Diaspora Policy, Identity and Development Program, housed in the GW Eliot School of International Affairs. Over the last fifteen years he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, South Africa, Liberia, and Angola and among African refugees/diasporas in Portugal and the US. His ongoing projects include: research on the political, philanthropic, and economic activities and impacts of the Liberian diaspora (funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation); a major study on customary law and access to justice in post-conflict Liberia (funded by the United States Institute for Peace); and a study of the gendered impact of internal displacement and urbanization in Angola (funded by the MacArthur Foundation). His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Journal of Peace Research, and Diaspora; a co-edited volume of Anthropological Quarterly (Spring 2005) that focuses on "West African Warscapes"; and a major monograph that critically examines theories of displacement and the relationship between violence and socio-cultural change in protracted conflicts (Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War, University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Education

Ph.D., Brown University