Irina Levin
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MC 1612 Tempe, AZ 85287-4202
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Irina Levin is an anthropologist whose research and teaching interests are in migration studies, the anthropology of law, the political theory of sovereignty and mobility, gender and labor studies, and Eurasian and Middle Eastern studies.
Dr. Levin's ethnographic fieldwork has been with a forcibly displaced community in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey. This work is focused on issues of disputed citizenship, legacies of displacement, narratives of collective trauma, and the social and political work of identity documents. As both states and individuals try to establish and maintain security in precarious times, displaced people's efforts to make legal and moral claims highlight key tensions in human rights, immigration, and citizenship law. Dr. Levin's work traces these tensions as they echo across both “east” and “west,” market and command economies, and national law and humanitarian praxis.
Dr. Levin is currently working on her book manuscript and several articles. In August 2019, she launched her new research project with women from the former Soviet Union working in Turkey.
- PhD Anthropology, New York University, 2017
- BA Anthropology and Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005
Former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, Turkey; migration, citizenship, law, sovereignty, nationalism, gender and sexuality, labor
2021. “The Great Homeland: Nationalistic Fervor and Everyday Disappointment Among the ‘Grandchildren of the Ottomans.’” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 21: 141-157. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sena.12352
2019. "Migration, Politics, and the Limits of Multiculturalism in a Turkish Museum." Journal of Museum Education 44 (1): 41-52. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10598650.2018.1539559
2018. "Teymur Atesli: A Traitor-Hero for the Cold-War Era." All the Russias Blog, NYU Jordan Center. http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/teymur-atesli-traitor-hero-cold-war-era/#.W1e2L9JKibg
2017. "Caught in a Bad Romance: Displaced People and the Georgian State." Citizenship Studies 22 (1) 19-36. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2017.1410781
Courses
2025 Fall
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| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LIA 494 | Special Topics |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
| HON 272 | The Human Event |
2022 Fall
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| LIA 494 | Special Topics |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
| HON 171 | The Human Event |
2022 Summer
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| TGM 598 | Special Topics |
| TGM 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
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| LIA 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
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| LIA 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LIA 494 | Special Topics |
| TGM 598 | Special Topics |
| TGM 598 | Special Topics |