About Dr. Rubaii

Dr. Rubaii is a cultural anthropologist whose scholarship focuses on displacement, health justice, and the environmental impacts of war. She leads the Parts Per Million Project, an interdisciplinary, international team of researchers concerned with multi-generational health effects of environmental exposures from the war industry. She is also a Co-I of War and Geos, a project researching military supply chains and the environmental legacies of warfare.

As an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, Dr. Rubaii is also affiliated with the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Women’s Global Health Initiative, Institute for Sustainable Futures, Integrative Data Science Initiative, Purdue Policy Research Institute, and the Tech Justice Lab. Prior to her appointment at Purdue, she was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of California, Davis from 2019-2020 and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rice University’s Environmental Humanities Research Center from 2018-2019. 

She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz; an MA in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz; and a BA in International Relations from the University of California, Davis.