{"id":145,"date":"2017-10-04T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-international-studies\/facultystaff\/jennarice\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:49:58","slug":"jennarice","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/facultystaff\/jennarice\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Rice Rahaim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Rice Rahaim received her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. Her research focuses on migration and religious, economic, and ethical practice in the Middle East. Her dissertation,\u00a0<em>Imagining Debt, Practicing Obligation: Family, Charity, and Humanitarianism in Saida, Lebanon<\/em> examines changing sensibilities towards charitable giving among Sunni Muslims in the context of the influx of Syrian refugees across the border.<\/p>\n<p>She has conducted extended ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Saida among wealthy patrons, anonymous donors, groups of female volunteers, NGO workers, religious leaders, and families that have redrawn their boundaries to create cohesive mutual aid associations. Broadly speaking, her work examines the ways in which people come to feel obligated to help refugee and migrant communities in Lebanon \u2013 whether due to piety, politics, kinship, or compassion.\u00a0Her work also shows how charitable giving becomes a space for negotiating the city&#8217;s relationship to secularism, sectarianism, religion, race, and political alliances.\u00a0This research becomes especially\u00a0important during a time of growing inequality, a shrinking welfare state, and the influx of more than one million Syrian refugees into Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>International Diploma: Institut d&#8217;Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris 2004<\/p>\n<p>BA: UC Berkeley 2005<br \/>\nMA: Stanford University 2009<br \/>\nPhD: Stanford University 2016<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"template":"","class_list":["post-145","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/145\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}