Nathalie is an associate professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. An anthropologist, she is the author of Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford UP, 2018), an ethnography of Socotran pastoralists’ reactions to an environmental conservation project in the 2000s. Drawing on research in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland, she is writing a book about refugees and migrants in the Horn of Africa. Dr. Peutz brings her comparative ethnographic field experience and this past year’s leadership experience to this project.