Past Member
Diana Allan
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of study
Anthropology
From
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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.
Visits
Member
School of Social Science
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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