Authors

Lori Allen

 

Lori Allen is a Reader in Anthropology at SOAS University of London. She studied anthropology at the University of Chicago where she completed a PhD, as well as her MA and BA. Her work focuses on Palestinian politics, and she has published on topics in the anthropology of nationalism, violence, and human rights in journals such as American EthnologistCultural Anthropology, and Contemporary Studies in Society and History. She has published socio-political analyses in MERIPThe Conversation, the American Association of University Professors journal, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine, was published in 2013 with Stanford University Press and won the Political and Legal Anthropology Association Book Prize. Her second monograph is A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2020). It is an ethnographic history of international investigative commissions in Palestine, which explores a century of Palestinian engagement with investigative commissions illuminating the endemic flaws of international law. 

ARTICLES BY Lori Allen