A. George Bajalia
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Winchester House, 21860-685-3266
BA Northwestern University
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University
A. George Bajalia
A. George Bajalia is a sociocultural anthropologist concerned with borderlands, primarily in the Western Mediterranean region. His current book project, Waiting at the Border: Language, Labor, and Infrastructure in the Strait of Gibraltar, dwells on the political, social, and cultural forms that emerge during time spent waiting among cross-border workers and West and Central African immigrants living and working around the Moroccan-Spanish borderlands surrounding Tangier and Ceuta. He has held research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation-CAORC, Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright-IIE, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Youmein Festival, a 48-hour contemporary art and performance festival and residency in Tangier, Morocco. Throughout his work, he is interested in questions of temporality, circulation and exchange, post-structural semiotics, regional formations, and the practices and politics of boundary-marking, belonging, and difference. His courses at Wesleyan explore the relationships between anthropology, performance, and curation; migration and borderlands; endurance and the otherwise; and theories of cultural and social change.
Representative Publications:
Refereed Articles
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fall 2023
Student Hours: Monday hours are 4:30 to 5:30pm, these hours are primarily for course related questions and will take place in room 206 of the Center for the Humanities (CHUM) this fall. You can make an appointment here: https://calendly.com/abajalia. Drop-in hours are Tuesday 1:30 to 3:30pm, and will take place in ANTH 21, in the Anthropology Department. These hours are primarily dedicated to advising and general inquiries.
Courses
Fall 2023
CHUM 305 - 01
Semiotics of al-Barzakh
Spring 2024
ANTH 101 - 01
Intro to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 313 - 01
Producing and Performing