Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila Abu-Lughod | |
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| Born | October 21, 1952 Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
| Parent(s) | Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (father) Janet L. Abu-Lughod (mother) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Carleton College (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Williams College Princeton University New York University Columbia University |
| Website | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/abu-lughod/faculty.html |
Lila Abu-Lughod (Arabic: ليلى أبو لغد; born 1952) is an American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. She specializes in ethnographic research in the Arab world, and her seven books cover topics including sentiment and poetry, nationalism and media, gender politics and the politics of memory.