Diana Allan

Assistant Professor, ISID and Department of Anthropology

Diana Allan earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 2008, and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2009-2012. Her work as scholar, archivist and filmmaker has centered on the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon, and her ethnography Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford University Press, 2014) won the 2014 Palestine Book Award, and the Middle East Studies Book Award at the 2015 American Anthropological Association meeting. She is the founder and co-director of the Nakba Archive and Lens on Lebanon, a participatory film and photographic initiative funded by the Soros Foundation. She was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 in film and anthropology, and was a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell between 2013 – 15. Her current research explores Lebanon’s informal economy and the politics of infrastructure and service provision.