/isid/taxonomy/term/276/all en /isid/channels/news/congratulations-professor-diana-allan-canada-research-chair-her-project-anthropology-living-archives-336405 <p>Professor Diana Allan, Associate Professor in the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of Anthropology, is one of Æ»¹ûÒùÔº's most recent recipients of a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair for her project, "The Anthropology of Living Archives".  Professor Allan, an anthropologist and filmmaker, focuses on the histories of the 1948 displacement of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon.</p> Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:00:02 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1468 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-diana-allan <p>Professor Allan’s work as an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker, and critical media activist in the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon is intrinsically interdisciplinary. The main thrust of her research has been to examine the collapse of Palestinian nationalist politics in exile. Her recent ethnography, <a href="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20689"><i>Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile</i></a> (Stanford UP, 2014), won the 2014 Palestine Book Award, and the Middle East Studies Book Award at the 2015 American Anthropological Association meeting.</p> Thu, 16 May 2019 17:30:35 +0000 Latitude 1381 at /isid