Costs of War
Catherine Besteman
Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, Colby College
Research Interests
Inequality and racism, security, insecurity, violence, and militarism, Somalia, migration and mobility
Biography
A past President of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropologists and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Catherine Besteman's books include Militarized Global Apartheid (2020), Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016), Transforming Cape Town (2008), Unraveling Somalia (1999), and the co-edited volumes Cultures of Militarism (2019), Life by Algorithms (2019), The Insecure American (2009) and Why America’s Top Pundits are Wrong (2005).