Sharon is a PhD candidate currently writing up her dissertation on the European refugee solidarity movement in Athens, Greece. Her ongoing project uses participant observation, interviews, and archival research to investigate the question: What does it mean to produce new social and political collectivities in the world made in the wake of the 2015 “summer of migration”?
Sharon's previous anthropological research has focused on U.S. linguistic nationalism as recently resettled Iraqi refugees experience and participate in it. In addition to her academic career, Sharon is a writer whose work has been published in National Geographic, the Washington Post, and other outlets and a contributing editor for the Society for Cultural Anthropology's AnthroPod.