Leonardo Schiocchet holds a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011). He is a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), principal investigator of the FWF-funded project Austro-Arab Encounters (2018-2022), and editor of Anthropology of the Middle East published by Berghahn Journals and editor of the ROR-n’s blog. Since 2006, his work has focused on the anthropology of the Middle East, devoting particular attention to processes of social belonging and subjecthood among Arab refugees in the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe. Within this focus, his work has covered themes including dynamics of suspicion and trust, ritualization, and home-making processes.
