Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila Abu-Lughod is an American professor of anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York, daughter of prominent Palestinian academic Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the American sociologist Janet Lippman.
She graduated from Carleton College in 1974, and obtained her PhD from Harvard University in 1984. She is married to Columbia University professor of Middle Eastern politics Timothy Mitchell.[1]
Abu-Lughod has taught at Williams College, Princeton University, and New York University, and has become known for her research on the Bedouin from the Awlad 'Ali tribe in Egypt.
In 2001, she delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester, considered by many to be the most important annual lecture series in the field of anthropology.[2] She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007 to research the topic: "Do Muslim Women Have Rights? The Ethics and Politics of Muslim Women's Rights in an International Field." She supports an academic boycott of Israel.[1]
Publications
- Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory with Ahmad H. Sa'di, (Columbia University Press 2007) ISBN 978-0231135788
- Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media (Amsterdam University Press 2007) ISBN 978-9053568248
- Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (University of Chicago Press 2004) ISBN 978-0226001975
- Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (Editor) (University of California Press 2002) ISBN 978-0520232310
- Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (University of California Press 2000) ISBN 978-0520224735
- Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Editor) (Princeton University Press 1998) ISBN 978-0691057927
- Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (University of California Press 1993) ISBN 978-0520083042
Notes
- ^ a b Weiss, Bari. New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel, New York Sun, September 12, 2008 [/]
- ^ http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=524051
Further reading
- Profile of Lila Abu-Lughod at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Columbia University Department of Anthropology Faculty
- Lila Abu Lughod: My Father's Return to Palestine Winter-Spring 2001, Issue 11-12 Jerusalem Quarterly (Accessed 28 Jan. 2008)