Incoming Member
Diana Allan
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Anthropology
Diana Allan is an anthropologist and filmmaker studying histories of Palestinian displacement and exilic experience in Lebanon. While at IAS she will be working on a book on refugee archives and completing a film 'Partition,' which brings together colonial films from British Mandate Palestine with recordings from the Nakba Archive.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
–
Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
2008
Cambridge University
B.A.
1996
Honors
2021-2026
Canada Research Chair – Anthropology of Living Archives
2021
English PEN Award (Voices of the Nakba)
2015
Middle East Studies Book Award (Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile)
2014
Palestine Book Prize (Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile)
Appointments
McGill University
2015
Associate Professor