Jonah Steinberg

Dr. Jonah Steinberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Studies

I am a sociocultural anthropologist with a focus on public scholarship and engaged ethnography. My research is on the extreme social edge and how it is iterated spatially, and on the subjective, affective, local experience of global forms of exclusion. I look at the ways macrosocial formations—from the movement of empires to the flow of global capital—translate into lived subjectivities, embodied precariousness, and the constraining of choice. In other words, I explore how political economy may be converted into legible forms of everyday experience in intimate domains of home, feeling, and emotion. My research funded by the National Science Foundation have included projects on child runaways in India and Roma in southern Europe.