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Geoffrey Hughes
London School of Economics and Political Science
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arabic
Colonialism
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Law
Mediterranean Studies
Modernization
Political Economy
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Jordan
Specialties
Social Engineering, Political Economy, Marriage
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
MA | 2011 | Anthropology | University of Michigan
BA | 2006 | Anthropology | Reed College
Abstracts
“Houses are alive:” The Persistence of Bodily Metaphors in Talk about Housing in Contemporary Jordan