Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 847-491-4565
Fax: 847-467-1778
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston
IL
60208-1330
United States
ABOUT
Anthropologist with an interest in topics at the intersection of language, law, gender, and marginality.
Currently writing a book on the Amazigh customary courts of the Anti-Atlas Mountains under the French Protectorate of Morocco with an emphasis on the interface between women's speech and its written representation in court records.
Additional project underway on transnational kafala (Islamic guardianship) by single mothers in France and the U.S.
Author of We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco (Blackwell-Wiley, 2008) and co-editor (with Susan Gilson Miller) of Berbers and Others: Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib (Indiana, 2010).
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Maghreb Studies
Ethnography
Minorities
Islamic Law
Mediterranean Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Morocco
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Colonialism
Imazighen (Berbers)
Law
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (fluent)
Italian (intermediate)
Tashelhit (advanced)
Moroccan (advanced)
Tamazight (intermediate)
Maltese (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2000
| Anthro
| Columbia U
Abstracts
Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production
The Monetary Value of Berber Women’s Effort in Moroccan Law
