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Andrew Shryock
Andrew Shryock, an associate professor, specializes in cultural anthropology and is jointly affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Shryock has done ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen, Jordan, and among Arab immigrant and ethnic communities in Detroit. His research in the Arab world centers on matters of historicity, nationalism, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, and modernity (both its cultural politics and its alternative forms). His work in North America focuses on ethnicity, mass mediated culture, transnational communities, diasporic consciousness, and identity politics. Shryock has been active in public cultural work, especially documentary films, museum exhibitions, and collaborative, community-based research and writing projects.
Selected Publications:
1997 Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in
Tribal Jordan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2000 Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
2002 New Images of Arab Detroit: Seeing Otherness and Identity through the Lens of 9/11, American Anthropologist 104 (3): 917-922.
2003 Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s “War on Terror.” With Sally Howell. Anthropological Quarterly 73: 443-462.
2004 “The New Jordanian Hospitality: House, Host, and Guest in the Culture of Public Display.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 46 (1): 35-62.
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