Andrew Gardner

I am a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. A sociocultural anthropologist and ethnographer by training, for the past two decades my fieldwork has been focused on the places, peoples and societies that interact in the hydrocarbon-rich states of the Arabian peninsula. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar, throughout South Asia, and in numerous other locations. Between 2008 and 2010 I also served as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, I am the author of City of Strangers (Cornell, 2010), and the forthcoming monograph The Fragmentary City (Cornell 2024). I've published several other edited collections, and I have several new manuscripts in process. Over the years, I've been invited to speak at Oxford, the London School of Economics, the Sorbonne, the University of Cologne, the National University of Singapore, Kyoto University, New York University, Duke University, the University of Chicago, UNAM Mexico City, the University of Hawaii, and numerous other colleges, universities, and institutions around the world. By political stripe, I am a dedicated anti-establishmentarian.