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Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-edited the volume, Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design, which explores changes in the uses and meanings of money in various sites across the Global South. The book, published by Berghahn Books, is part of The Human […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, authored an article on “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption” in Current Anthropology. Abstract: Since 2002, the satirical investigative television show Fiks Fare (“Right On!” or “Exactly”) has aired immediately after prime-time news at a leading national broadcasting […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme hosts Wealth and Poverty Week on Urban Challenges, featuring Dr. Smoki Musaraj discussing “Construction, Corruption, and Concrete: Lamenting Betonizim (Concrete-ization) in Albanian Cities” on Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at Alden 319. Watch live or later on A&S TV. For the first time in human […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, authored an article in Ethnologie Française, on “Pyramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania” (Ethnologie Française Vol 2: 321-330. 2017). Abstract: Pyramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania. When they collapsed in 1997, the so‑called pyramid firms (firma […]

The Fall 2017 courses that fulfill requirements for the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate include five courses. The following list includes course name, time, instructor, and prerequisites. The certificate is offered by the History Department at Ohio University. Students and advisors interested in learning more about the MENA studies certificate […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presents “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Anti-corruption” at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society in Palo Alto, California, later this month. Musaraj’s areas of research include Anthropology of Money and Value, Bubbles and Crashes, […]

The Sociology & Anthropology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Smoki Musaraj on “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Anti-corruption in Albania” on Friday, March 17, at 4 p.m. in Bentley Annex 102. Musaraj is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at […]