UT Austin, PhD 2014

UT Austin, MA 2007

U. of Rochester, BA 2001

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Tessa Farmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Studies Program. Her first book, Well-Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo (2023), focuses on water and wastewater in Cairo, Egypt. She has a second book project underway on charitable water fountains, called sabils, that are an important part of the built environment and moral ecology of Cairo, and an ongoing research collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiative on water reuse, urban greening, and urban agriculture in the al-Khalifa neighborhood of Cairo. Her research has been awarded funding by Fulbright Hayes, Social Science Research Council, PEO, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Virginia. Tessa’s work appeared in the Middle East Law and Governance Journal, the Journal of Sustainability Education, Anthropology News, MERIP, in the edited volume Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice (with Helena Zeweri), and she co-guest edited a special issue on the Environment in the Middle East in the International Journal of Middle East Studies with Jessica Barnes.

Website: https://www.tessafarmer.org/