Publications
2024 “Birding Under Fire: Ecological Value and Violence in Iraq.” American Ethnologist. 51(2): 1-12.
2022 “The Climate of Occupation in Iraq.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights.
2022 Guarasci B and Kim EJ, eds. “Ecologies of War.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights.
2021 Vaughn SE, Guarasci B, and Moore A. “Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 50.
2021 “The Art of Nature in Iraq’s Marshes: Images of the Occupation.” Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World. Shifting Terrains. 15(1-2).
2020 “Bird Markets, Artisanal Pigeons, and Class Relations in the Middle East.” MERIP. 296
2018 Guarasci B, Moore A, and Vaughn SE, eds. Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology. Fieldsights.
2018 “The Architecture of Environment: Building Houses along the Great Rift Valley in Jordan.” International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50(3).
2018 “Environmental Rehabilitation and Global Profiteering in Wartime Iraq.” Costs of War Project. Brown University.
2015 “The National Park: Restoring the Marshes in Wartime Iraq.” Arab Studies Journal XXIII (1): 128-153.
2015 “Investigating Imperial Formations: Conducting Ethnography of Iraq’s Marsh Restoration.” Arab Studies Journal. XXIII (1): 254-256.
Exhibits
Fall 2024 Geographies of the Future: Traveling the Arab Majority World in Virtual Reality. Franklin & Marshall College, Phillips Gallery. Co-curator.
Fall 2017 Arab Arts Festival. Franklin & Marshall College. Co-organizer.
Talks
October 20, 2021 Elements of Borders and Infrastructure: Earth I. Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU.
June 2021 Iraq’s Wetlands Ecologies. Arab Reform Initiative. Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa Conference. Paris, France.
April 2021 Intersectional Ecologies. Anthropology Seminar. Bard College
March 2021 Ground Truth: Epistemologies of the Field. Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Rutgers University.
March 2020 Thinking about Iraq’s Marshes with Dia Azzawi and Muzaffar al-Nawwab. Department of Anthropology. Bard College.
May 2017 Birding Under Fire: Learning Ornithology in Wartime Iraq. Militarized Ecologies Workshop. UC Irvine.
April 2015 Virtual Realities: The Wartime Labor of Eden in Iraq’s Marshes. Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
Apr 2013 War in the Skies: the Power of Birds in Iraq. Culture, Power, and Social Change. University of California, Los Angeles.
Jan 2013 The National Park: Biodiversity Conservation in Wartime Iraq. Center for Near Eastern Studies. University of California, Los Angeles.
Oct 2011 Iraqi Ecotourism. Invited Speaker. Colloquium of the Middle East Studies Center. Portland State University.
Podcasts and Interviews
2021 “Intersectional Ecologies.” Cultures of Energy Podcast. Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, Anthropology, Rice University.
2020 “A Step Toward Decolonizing the Discipline.” Interview with Jessica Pouchet for Anthropology News website.
2018 Roundtable Discussion: Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology. AnthroPod from Cultural Anthropology.
Public Scholarship
2011 “GPS Humanitarianism: Technology Makes it Easier to Bring Aid to War-torn Countries—but Harder to Connect to People.” Slate Magazine.