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Professor Lila Abu-Lughod FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Subjects
Anthropology, Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography

Summary

Lila Abu-Lughod's research interests are anthropology of the Arab world; gender and cultural forms from poetry to television soap operas; the politics and ethics of fieldwork, knowledge production, and representations; violence and memory in Palestine; and the geopolitics of feminism.

Current post

Columbia University Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Department of Anthropology and Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender

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