Thayer Hastings
Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow
SIS | Global Inquiry
Degrees
PhD, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center MA, Arab Studies, Georgetown University BA, International Studies, University of Washington
Bio
Thayer Hastings is a cultural anthropologist broadly working on questions raised by the political traditions of sovereignty and anticolonialism in the Middle East. His research centers contemporary Palestine to investigate the links between the production of surplus populations and modes of belonging, as well as how forms of colonial domination endure and come undone. He received his PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2025 where his dissertation documented everyday bureaucratic reproduction, proof-making, and practice in the face of the anxious governance of majoritarianism in Jerusalem. His research has been recognized with fellowships and awards from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Center, and the American Anthropological Association Middle East Section.
