Megan A. Carney

Megan A. Carney is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist with specializations in global human displacement and migration, the intersections of food and migration, migrant health, the politics of care, and the affective dimensions of state-sanctioned violence and economic restructuring. Her fieldwork is focused in the western United States and in Italy, specifically Sicily. She is Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and author of two books, "The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders" (2015) and "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" (2021). Previously, she was a Fulbright Schuman visiting fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (2021-22) and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project (2018-19). She is also Director of the UA Center for Regional Food Studies.