Making Migrants is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities.

Sacred Economies examines how church and mosque infrastructure in Uganda enables local efforts to address poverty. It focuses especially on the role of Christian and Muslim leaders who create interfaith networks of community care and the ways in which faith and economic activity intertwine to sustain these networks.

Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.

Temptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Muş (Moush). Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explores how the 1915 genocide and dispossession of Armenians shaped property regimes, citizenship, and economic logics that continue to reverberate today.

Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.

In Forensic Fantasies, anthropologist Başak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence.

Centering the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors in New England, Trafficking Trajectories highlights the role of structural violence before, during, and after trafficking. Alicia Peters reveals opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective.

A Break in the Future considers the ways in which belief in political change is maintained after movements fail. Examining political activism in Lebanon in the decade between the Arab and Lebanese uprisings, Fuad Musallam explores the ebb and flow of political engagement in dialogue to better understand how political possibility endures.

Under the Same Sky explores the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with Syria, showing how their shared social spaces sustain and transform religious differences. Seçil Daǧtaș offers a nuanced perspective on secularism, religious plurality, and interfaith relations in the Middle East, moving beyond identity-based politics.