Hannah Borenstein

Bio

Hannah Borenstein is an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Her research is broadly concerned with intersections of sports, race, gender, politics, and labor, with a particular focus on long distance running in Ethiopia. Her first book project, provisionally entitled Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital, comes from over two years of fieldwork in Ethiopia, along with multi-sited archival and anthropological research in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her research situates the stories of women runners within a global political economy of sport as they navigate a world of corporate sponsorship, international competition, and gendered cultural expectations at home.

Borenstein received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Duke University, with certificates in African and African and African American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. In addition to academic writing she is also committed to public scholarship.