Stephen C. Lubkemann

Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Associate Editor of Anthropological Quarterly
Co-Founder, Diaspora Research and Policy Program, Elliott School of International Affairs
Technical Advisory Board, GWU-Africa Center for Health and Human Security
E-mail sl02@gwu.edu
Office: 2112 G St., 103 / (202) 994-4191

Dr. Lubkemann is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work focuses primarily on social and political change in nations that have experienced protracted conflict and violence; on migrants, refugees, and diasporas; on international development and humanitarian action; and on cultural heritage and maritime archaeology.

Research

Dr. Lubkemann has conducted fieldwork with migrants and refugees in Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, and Liberia, and among diasporas in Portugal and the U.S. He has also worked on a variety of archaeological and cultural heritage projects in the U.S., Bermuda, and southern Africa.

Current Research Projects

1. I continue to pursue a project launched in 2003 with grants from the United States Institute for Peace and the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation examining the influence of the Liberian diaspora on their war-torn homeland.
   
2. I am concluding research on internal displacement, urbanization, and informal governance in Angola funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
   
3. I am concluding a project supported by the United Institute for Peace that explores the role of customary legal systems in post-conflict Liberia.
   
4. I have recently initiated an internationally collaborative maritime archeology and cultural heritage project supported by the Ford Foundation, entitled the Southern African Slave Wrecks and Heritage Route Project.

Selected Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

2008	Lubkemann, S.C. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2007	Lubkemann, S.C., guest ed. "Kinship and globalization." Special issue of Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 80, No. 2.

Articles & Book Chapters

2008	Lubkemann, S.C. "Involuntary immobility: On a theoretical invisibility of forced migration studies," Journal of Refugee Studies 21(4): 454-475.
2008	Lubkemann, S.C. "Liberian remittance relief and not-only-for-profit entrepreneurship — exploring the economic relevance of diasporas in post-conflict transitions." In J. Brinkerhoff, ed. Diasporas and International Development: Exploring the Potential. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press.
2005	Lubkemann, S.C. "Migratory coping in wartime Mozambique: An anthropology of violence and displacement in ‘fragmented wars," Journal of Peace Research 42 (4): 493-508.
2005	Lubkemann, S.C. "The moral economy of non-return among socially-diverted migrants from Portugal and Mozambique." In L. Trager, ed. Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics--Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs No. 22. NY: Altamira Press.
2005	Lubkemann, S.C., and D. Hoffman. "Warscape ethnography in West Africa and the anthropology of 'events'," Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2):315-328.
2005	Lubkemann, S.C. "Unsettling the metropole: Decolonization, migration and national identity in postcolonial Portugal." In C. Elkins and S. Pedersen, eds., Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies. NY: Taylor and Francis.

Courses Taught

Anth 117: Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 151: Anthropology of Development
Anth 178: Cultures of Africa
Anth 198: Foundations of Anthropological Thought
Anth 222: Post-Conflict Transitions and Societies
Anth 251: Displacement and Diaspora
Anth 700: Anthropology of Violence and Political Conflict

Education

Ph.D. 2000, Brown University
M.A. 1994, Brown University
B.A. 1990, Duke University