Bridget Guarasci

Bridget Guarasci is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College. She is an environmental anthropologist whose work examines the intersections of war and ecological life in the Arab-majority world. Her book manuscript Ecology of War: Iraq’s Marshes on the Battlegrounds of War considers how the management of nature during the US occupation and UN reconstruction of Iraq was particularly vicious warfare because of the way marshlands conservationists targeted not just lifeform, but the life systems it depends on. She has published with International Journal of Middle East Studies, Arab Studies Journal, Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, the Annual Review of Anthropology, and the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Theorizing the Contemporary series as well as with Brown University’s Costs of War project and Slate magazine.