Natalie Konopinski

Natalie received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, where she taught a number of anthropology and research methods courses. She joined George Mason University as a visiting scholar in 2011. Her research interests are in political anthropology, in particular security practices, anticipation, suspicion and the state in Israel.

Natalie's PhD dissertation was an ethnography of security in Tel Aviv and focussed on the suspicions, gazes and practices of security guards and Jewish Israeli residents, from national security and wartime experience to more intimate security checks on the city streets. She has been working on two book manuscripts at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution: Doing Anthropological Research: A Practical Guide (forthcoming July 2013 with Routledge) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415697552/) and Security Land: Anticipation, Suspicion and Citizenship in Tel Aviv.