Daniel Martin Varisco

Daniel Martin Varisco is an anthropologist, historian and international development consultant who served as Research Professor in Social Science at Qatar University and coordinator of Social Science research in QU's Center for Humanities and Social Sciences from 2014-2017. He has also received fellowships from the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (2017-2018) and the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg in Bonn, Germany. (2019). In 2019-2020 he was a member of the institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He served as President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (2014-2022). He conducted ethnographic and ecological study of traditional water rights and irrigation in the highland of Yemen in 1978-79 for his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (1982). He has consulting and research experience in Yemen, Egypt, Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.