Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada

Naor Ben-Yehoyada (MA, Tel Aviv University 2005; PhD, Harvard 2011) is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work examines unauthorized migration, criminalization, political economy and the aftermath of development, and transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean. His monograph, The Mediterranean Incarnate: Transnational Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II (Chicago Press, 2017), offers a historical anthropology of the recent re-emergence of the Mediterranean. He has also written shorter pieces about the different phases of the dynamics of maritime unauthorized migration and interdiction. His current project follows perpetual debate about what the Mafia is and how anti-Mafia forms of inquiry (by magistrates, journalists, political activists, police investigators) encounter this dilemma. His work appeared in Current Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Cultural Anthropology’s Open Book.