Academic biography

Amanda Lubit is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) and DOROTHY Post-Doctoral Fellow. Amanda is a socio-cultural anthropologist focusing on the related topics of gender, visibility, identity, belonging, care, mobility, and place-making. She also has experience with creative forms of embodied ethnography (e.g. walking and artistic expression). She was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck  Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (2024-2025), and is currently a visiting fellow at Georg August Universität Göttingen. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Creative Ethnography, and is increasingly connecting her academic research with her personal fiber arts practice.

Her current 3-year project uses the analytical concept of “care” to identify how women refugees and asylum seekers across Ireland understand and cope with crises. She focuses upon the interrelated issues of housing, education, healthcare and racism. She researches with women-only groups engaged in mutual aid activities, solidarity initiatives, gardening, the arts, activism and more. This research builds upon her PhD from Queen’s University Belfast (2023) which examined how migrant Muslim women establish a sense of belonging and place in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland). That research is now available open access from Berghahn Books: Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland.

She is originally from the USA and previously earned master’s degrees in anthropology (Portland State University) and public health (Tufts University). Her research interests developed out of prior applied anthropological work on HIV/AIDS, addiction, mental health, homelessness, pandemics, environmental disaster, and displacement.