Dr. Tricia Redeker Hepner, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 2004, Anthropology, Michigan State University.
M.A. 2000, Anthropology, Michigan State University.
B.A. 1996, Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Research Interests

Political and legal anthropology; Northeast Africa; African diasporas; refugees and asylum seekers; human rights; conflict and war; transnationalism; identity; political economy and development

Selected Publications

2007-8 Transnational Governance and the Centralization of State Power in Eritrea and Exile. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Advance published August 2007 by iFirst at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g780570317~db=all, in press.

2007 Transnational Political and Legal Dimensions of Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Forced Migration Studies Programme Working Paper Series 36. http://migration.org.za/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/36_hepner.pdf

2007 Arresting Faith: Religion and State Repression in Contemporary Eritrea. With Randal L.Hepner. In New Religiosity and Intergenerational Conflict in Northeast Africa. G. Schlee, D. Dea, and C. Falge, eds., forthcoming.

2005 Eritrea Abroad: Critical Perspectives on the Global Diaspora. Special Edition of the Eritrean Studies Review. Vol. 4, No. 2. Co-edited and introduced with Bettina Conrad (University of Hamburg).

2005 Transnational Tegadelti: Eritreans for Liberation in North America and the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front. Eritrean Studies Review 4(2).

2003 Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Civil Society in the Eritrean Diaspora. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10(3):269-293.

Books In Progress

Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Trans/National Political Struggle in Eritrea and the Diaspora. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.

Biopolitics, Militarism and Development: Eritrea in the 21 st Century. Co-edited with David O’Kane (University of Birmingham, UK). Under peer review with Berghahn Books, Dislocations Series.