Myriam Lamrani

A visual anthropologist and anthropologist of religion of Moroccan, Portuguese,
and Spanish heritage. She is an Associate of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (2021–2024) co-hosted with Panteion University, Athens. Her research explores the intersections of political violence, visual anthropology, and religious devotion, focusing on the affective power of images. Her first monograph, The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca (University of Texas Press, 2025), is the first ethnographic study in English on the cult of La Santa Muerte.