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Jessica Barnes

Jessica Barnes’s work examines the cultural, political, and material dimensions of resource use and environmental change in the Middle East and beyond. Her publications include Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2014), Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change (coedited with Michael Dove, Yale University Press, 2015), Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2022), and articles in a number of journalsHer research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Jessica received her PhD in sustainable development from Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina.

ARTICLES BY Jessica Barnes