Eda Pepi

Eda Pepi is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research spans the Middle East, North and West Africa, and Southern Europe. She serves as an assistant professor in the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, where she also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Anthropology and is a core faculty member in Modern Middle East Studies. Her scholarship lies at the intersection of feminist studies, political anthropology, and the anthropology of kinship. Dr. Pepi is currently finalizing her first book, Marital States: The Reproductive Politics of UnCitizenship in Jordan. She has also initiated two new book projects: “Grounds for Divorce: Gender and Transnational Kinship in Western Sahara” and “The Colonial Origins of Welfare States: Settler Kinship and Hardship Compensation in the Canary Islands.” These projects delve into the cultural and historical dynamics that shape the interplay between gender and kinship, race and citizenship, and political economy and state formation across the Mediterranean.