Anthony is a medical anthropologist from Lebanon whose research combines contemporary anthropological approaches to political economy with the social study of microbes. He explores human–microbial relations through ethnography, archival research, and interdisciplinary collaboration, with research on the political history of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon, global pathogen access- and benefit-sharing (P-ABS) systems, and the legal standing of microbes in international law. His current research traces the links between microbes and financial systems, exploring microbial capacities to be repositories of financial systems as well as how microbes figure into transnational stories of financial crises, diasporic microbiology, and the work of microbial memory in and beyond Lebanon.

Anthony has a MSc in Medical Anthropology from Durham University (2018) and a PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Institute of Geneva (2024). His research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund. He is currently based in Montreal and is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2025–2027) with the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Sherbrooke, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Anthony’s recent publications include research on antimicrobial resistance and armed conflict in Lebanon and Iraq, global pathogen access- and benefit-sharing, and on microbial rights.

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