Kali Rubaii

Kali Rubaii earned her PhD in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz and her BA in International Relations from University of California, Davis.

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Specialization: displacement, ecologies of war, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, health justice, Middle East.

Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her research focuses on displacement, environmental health justice, and war-impacted ecologies. Through forensic ethnography along the supply chain of war, Dr. Rubaii’s work bears witness to the violent material impact of extractive industry and war on people’s lives. She is currently leading two interdisciplinary projects: She is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between birth anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq as it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship. For more details, visit kalirubaii.com.in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq as it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.