Research interests
Anthropology of Islam, Islamic law, religious studies, ethics, gender, sexuality, and kinship
Andrew Bush is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan or its diaspora since 2002. He completed a PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2014, then held positions in research and teaching at New York University Abu Dhabi until 2019. Just before joining Alcitfem, he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School. His research has revolved around questions of gender, ethics, and Islamic traditions in Iraqi Kurdistan, connecting those questions to poetic traditions and legal forums where kinship relations are adjudicated. His research with Alcitfem considers Kurdish students as migrants in Europe.
The most important publications
- 2020 Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan, Stanford University Press
- 2017 “An Offer of Pleasure: Islam, Poetry, and the Ethics of Religious Difference in a Kurdish Home,” American Ethnologist 44 (3): 516-27
