Lila abu lughod biography sample

American anthropologist

Lila Abu-Lughod (Arabic: ليلى أبو لغد) (born 1952) is an Americananthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City.

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.

Lila abu lughod biography sample

Early life and education

Lila Abu-Lughod was born on October, 21st, 1952, in Champaign, Illinois, USA, where her father, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod undertook his BA at University of Illinois. Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was a prominent Arab-Palestinian academic, who was well-known for his academic work and activisim on Palestine.

Her mother, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, née Lippman, was a leading Jewish American urban sociologist.^[1][2]

Abu-Lughod went to New Trier High School and graduated in 1970.^[3] She went on to study a