Dr. Jatin Dua will give a Boas lecture on: "Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis". A light reception will follow in 465 Schermerhorn Extension.
Dr. Jatin Dua (he/him) is an associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the
Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. He also
directs the Oceans Lab at the University of Michigan dedicated to collaborative and multimodal
ways of engaging oceans as anthropological interlocutors. His research explores maritime
mobility, and its perils and possibilities, in the Indian Ocean, focusing on processes and projects
of governance, law, and economy. His book, Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the
Indian Ocean, published with the University of California Press (December 2019) and winner of
the 2020 Elliot P. Skinner Book Award, is a multi-sited ethnographic and archival engagement
with Somali piracy and contestations over legitimate and illegitimate commerce in the Western
Indian Ocean. In addition, he has published a number of articles on maritime anthropology,
captivity, political economy, and sovereignty and is the incoming editor of the journal
Comparative Studies in Society and History.
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