Geoffrey Hughes

My research and teaching focus on the politics of everyday life in the contemporary Middle East, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, Islam, and the state. I have spent over four years living and working in the region, including over two years conducting long-term ethnographic research in Jordan funded by the US National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I have published extensively on how people living in the Middle East work to re-imagine a range of globally circulating technologies for large-scale population management, from the information infrastructures of government Sharia Courts to Facebook-mediated blood feuds.