I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in economic and legal anthropology. My research focusses on theories of money and value; speculative bubbles; housing and construction; corruption and the rule of law; migration and remittances; postsocialist transformations; and societies of the Mediterranean.
I have published on ponzi schemes, mobile money, corruption and anti-corruption discourses and actors, informal practices such as remittances and klering (barter in housing), anti-Airbnb protests, and urban landscapes in postsocialist and Mediterranean cities.
Currently, I am working on the project, Mediterranean Dreaming: Migration and Tourism Massification in Maritime Cities. In Fall 2023, I was Germaine Tillon Chair of Mediterranean Tomorrow Fellowship at the IMéRA Institute of Advanced Studies in Marseille, France. During my residency there, I conducted fieldwork in Marseille and Barcelona.
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Contact: musaraj[at]ohio.edu