Visiting Fellow
Noor Amr
Curriculum Vitae
Noor Amr was a guest from October 2022 until September 2024. Noor is a PhD Candidate
in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. During her stay, she
will be conducting ethnographic research on church asylum for rejected
asylum-seekers in Germany, paying attention to the relationship between
migration, Christianity, sovereignty, and political belonging. Noor holds an M.T.S.
in Philosophy of Religion from Harvard Divinity School, where she was a Dean’s
Fellow, and a B.A. in Politics from Willamette University. Her current research
is supported by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).