Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and an anthropologist of politics and law. Her work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, post-conflict reconciliation, and contested sovereignty on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line and in Turkey. Her most recent books are The Anthropology of the Future (co-authored with D. M. Knight, Cambridge University Press, 2019); Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State (co-authored with Mete Hatay, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020); and The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination Beyond the State (co-edited with Madeline Reeves, Cornell University Press, 2021). Her most recent work concerns the futural imaginations of Syrian refugee youth in Turkey, and she is currently completing a co-authored book manuscript, Lives in Limbo: Syrian Youth Turkey, to be published by Berghahn Books.