Current Visitor
Lila Abu-Lughod
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Anthropology, Gender Studies
Home Institution
Columbia University
Website
Lila Abu-Lughod is interested in anthropology and gender politics in/of the Arab and Muslim world. She has focused on questions of representation and ethics; the cultural politics of poetry, media, and museums; and the international circulation of rights discourses. She will be working on "Acknowledgments: Making an Anthropologist."
Dates at IAS
Visitor
School of Social Science
– current
Member
School of Social Science
–
Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
1984
Harvard University
M.A.
1978
Carleton College
B.A.
1974
Honors
2021
General Anthropology Division Cross Field Award
2008
American Ethnological Society Book Prize
2007
Carnegie Scholar
1997
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1996
NEH Fellowship
1994
Victor Turner Prize
1984
Malcolm Kerr Disseration Prize
1984
Stirling Award
Appointments
Columbia University
2000–2023
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor Anthropology and Gender Studies
New York University
1991–2000
Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University
1989–1991
Assistant Professor of Religion
Williams College
1984–1987
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology