Professor Darryl Li “Evasion Lab Hour”

Darryl Li is Associate Professor of Anthropology and associate member of the law school at the University of Chicago. He researches questions of war, law, migration, empire, and racialization in the currents between the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans. He is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, 2020), an ethnographic and archival study of “jihadist foreign fighters” in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book was awarded the William A. Douglass prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.