Seteney Shami

Seteney Shami is founding director of the ACSS. She is an anthropologist from Jordan who earned her bachelor’s degree from the American University of Beirut and her master’s degree and doctorate from University of California, Berkeley. After teaching and setting up a graduate department of anthropology at Yarmouk University in Jordan, in 1996 she moved to the regional office of the Population Council in Cairo as the Director of the Middle East Awards in Population and the Social Sciences. From 1999 to 2010, she was a program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York responsible for the Middle East, North Africa, Eurasia programs.