Rachel is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her research interests broadly center questions of power and violence with an emphasis on the relationshibetween infrastructure and inequality. For her Master's research, Rachel conducted fieldwork in Beirut, investigating how histories of violence and trauma shape current attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Her PhD research focuses on how regimes of infrastructural maintenance and dis)repair uphold social norms and inequality in Beirut, Lebanon and how accrued experiences of urban violence may also create political openings for alternative networks of urban care and infrastructural redress. For her dissertation, she is conducting collaborative ethnographic research with organizations and activists promoting environmental and urban sustainability and advocating for improved urban infrastructures.