Kirsten Scheid: "The Problem of the Philistine"
Kirsten Scheid is an associate professor of anthropology in the department of sociology, anthropology, and media studies at American University of Beirut. Her research and teaching interests are the anthropology of art, aesthetics, art historiography and theory, modernization and cosmopolitanism, affect, and elites. She has conducted field and archival research since 1992 in Lebanon and Palestine. She earned her PhD in anthropology from Princeton University and her BA in art history from Columbia University.
Photo: Khalil Rabah, “Philistine,” 1997, Oxford Desk Dictionary, Thesaurus and nails, 10.5 x 26 x 19 cm. Courtesy of the Dalloul Art Foundation (Beirut).