As part of “Side Bar,” the University of Chicago’s Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry’s new series of conversations between artists and academics, Jordanian artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan was paired in conversation with Dr. Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, and W...

Hilary Morgan Leathem
Hilary Morgan Leathem is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellow. Her research focuses on the intersection of monumental heritage, art, and human rights, and the affective, moral, and symbolic dimensions of heritage production and destruction. She is a Reviews Editor for the History of Anthropology Newsletter, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anthropology Book Forum, InVisible Culture, and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.