​Christa Salamandra

Christa Salamandra is a Syrian media specialist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, where she also served as Postdoctoral Research Associate. She has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Lebanese American University in Beirut, and a Visiting Fellow at the New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen. She received a 2009 American Council of Learned Societies/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship for her current book project on the Syrian TV drama industry. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Arab Media and Society.

Events

Event

For Syria: an Evening of Poetry in Translation

Wed, Apr 6, 2016
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM