Dr Konstantina Isidoros

Keywords: Sahara Desert and MENA region; nomadic pastoralism; economic and political anthropology; Islam; gender/feminist anthropology; anthropology of development, refugee theory and international law; evolutionary anthropology and Holocene climate variability; Sahara archaeology, human-landscape interaction.

Research and Teaching Interests

I am a social anthropologist of the Sahara Desert in North Africa and hold a DPhil and MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. I am a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer at St Catherine's College and Research Fellow at the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group (FRSG), and Tutor in Anthropology and Gender Studies for the Archaeology & Anthropology and Human Sciences degrees. My principle research interest is in the specialised human endeavour of occupation, migration, survival and adaptation in arid zones.

Awards and Funding

• 2019 Journal of Middle East Anthropology Award for 'Replenishing milk sons' (2018)
• 2017 Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Award for the Arab Masculinities Symposium
• 2011 Royal Anthropological Institute Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund~
• 2010 Royal Geographical Society Frederick Soddy Trust Postgraduate Award
• All Souls College E.O. James Bequest 

Publications

Isidoros, K and Inhorn, M.C. 2019. (eds) Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times (forthcoming manuscript)

• Inhorn, M.C. and Isidoros, K. 'Introduction'
• Isidoros, K. (chapter) 'Welcoming Ban Ki-moon: Masculinities on the threshold in North Africa'

Inhorn, M.C. and Isidoros, K. 2018. (eds) 'Arab masculinities, anthropological re-conceptions', Men and Masculinities (Special Issue) 21 (3): 319-449.

• Inhorn, M.C. and Isidoros, K. 'Introduction'

Isidoros, K. 2018. Nomads and Nation Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi. London: I.B. Tauris.

Isidoros, K. 2018. 'Replenishing milk sons: Changing kinship practices among the Sahrawi, North Africa.' Journal of the Anthropology of Middle East, 12 (2): 8-27.

Isidoros, K. 2017. 'Arab masculinities: Anthropological reconceptions: Report on the Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop at the University of Oxford, March 2017.' Journal of the Anthropology of Middle East, 12 (1): 142-144.

Isidoros, K. 2017. 'Unveiling the colonial gaze: Sahrawi women in nascent nation-state formation in the Western Sahara.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 19 (4): 487-506.

Isidoros, K. 2017. 'The view from Tindouf: Western Saharan women and the calculation of autochthony.' In R. Ojeda-García, V. Veguilla and I. Fernández-Molina (eds) Global, regional and local dimensions of Western Sahara's protracted decolonization: When a conflict gets old. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Isidoros, K. 2015. 'The silencing of unifying tribes: The colonial construction of tribe and its 'extraordinary leap' to nascent nation-state formation in Western Sahara.' Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. New Series (VII: 2).

Isidoros, K. 2015. 'Between Purity and Danger: Fieldwork approaches to movement, protection and legitimacy for a female ethnographer in the Sahara Desert'. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. New Series (VII: 1): Special Issue on Sexual Danger in the Field.

Lakhal, M. and Isidoros, K. (eds.) 2013. Second Special Issue: Western Sahara - Africa's Last Colony Revisited. Pambazuka-Fahamu Online Issue 618.

Isidoros, K. 2012. 'Awakening Protests in Morocco and Western Sahara.' In: Ekine, S. and Manji, F. (eds.) African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions. Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford: Pambazuka Press.

Isidoros, K. 2010. 'Western Sahara and the United States' Geographical Imaginings.' In Mundy, J. (ed). US Militarization of the Sahara-Sahel: Security, Space & Imperialism. Journal of Concerned African Scholars. ACAS Bulletin 85.