Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of South Florida
Dept of Anthropology
4202 E Fowler Ave
Tampa
FL
33620
United States
ABOUT
Tara Deubel is an Asst. Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She received her PhD from the Univ. of Arizona in 2010 in sociocultural anthropology with minors in Near Eastern Studies and history. Her research interests include gender, political economy, politics of humanitarian aid, forced migration and refugee studies, language and performance, and visual anthropology. As a Fulbright-Hays and AIMS fellow, she conducted doctoral research with Sahrawi Arab communities in North Africa (Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Algeria) on ethnicity, nationalism and popular forms of expressive culture. She has also conducted research in Muslim communities in sub-Saharan Africa (Niger, Mali, Chad, and Guinea) on issues of food security, gender and development and community microfinance in collaboration with international aid organizations.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Development
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Folklore/Folklife
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Algeria
Maghreb
Mauritania
Morocco
Sahara
Specialties
Sahrawi Arabs, Diaspora, Nationalism, Identity
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Bambara (elementary)
French (fluent)
Moroccan (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2010
| Anthropology
| University of Arizona
Abstracts
Dialogues across the Divide: Poetic Expression as Political Critique in the Sahrawi Diaspora
Wearing the Melhafa: Sahrawi Women and the Identity Politics of Dress
Divorce and Women’s Status: Impacts of Family Law Reform in Southern Morocco
Urbanizing the Sahara: The politics of settlement and urban development in El-Ayoun
Autonomy and Income Generation through Amazigh Women’s Argan Oil Production in Southwestern Morocco
