Naor Ben-Yehoyada

Naor Ben-Yehoyada is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the author of The Mediterranean Incarnate: Transnational Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II ( 2017). His current project follows perpetual debate about what the Mafia is and how anti-Mafia forms of inquiry (by magistrates, journalists, political activists, police investigators) encounter this dilemma.

For over a decade now, he has enjoyed an ongoing conversation with Michael Gilsenan around questions of doubts, lies, suspicions, and inquiry, as well as on anthropologists’ vicissitudes in and out of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. 

Festpod conversation was mostly about the early years in Oxford, Chicago, and UCLA.