Camila Pastor is a professor at the History Division of CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City, which she joined after receiving her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research in historical anthropology focuses on transnationalism, mediation, gender, and hierarchy in Middle Eastern and Latin American colonial and postcolonial settings. She is the author of The Mexican Mahjar. Transnational Maronites, Jews and Arabs under the French Mandate, 2017 with Texas University Press, which was awarded the 2018 Khayrallah Migration Studies Prize, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Pastor recently concluded an ethnographic census of the Muslim population in Mexico and is Associate Editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America. She is working on a new book project on performance, prostitution, and other spheres of suspect labor in the Mandate Mediterranean.
