Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies
BA, Haverford College; MA, Columbia University; PhD, The Graduate Center at the University of New York
Claire Panetta is a cultural anthropologist who studies the contemporary MENA region, with a particular focus on cities, heritage, and urban politics. She has conducted long term research in Cairo, Egypt, where she has investigated urban development and architectural heritage as sites for political action and the expression of political ideologies. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, City & Society, the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and Teaching and Learning Anthropology. She is co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Terreform, 2016) and is working on a book that analyzes urban change in Cairo after the January 25th Revolution of 2011. She completed her PhD in anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and she holds an MA in anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in anthropology from Haverford College. Prior to joining the faculty at Sewanee, she taught at Barnard College, Pace University, Fordham University, and the City University of New York. Her teaching interests include the MENA region, globalization, cultural heritage, popular media, and urbanism and urban life.
