Back to personalities catalog
Notable FigureFemale

Lila Abu-Lughod

born 1952

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

Lila Abu-Lughod is an American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. 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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
October 21, 1952
United States
Citizenship

United States · Palestine

Occupations & fields
anthropologist
Awards & honours
Guggenheim FellowshipFellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellow of the British Academy
Field and occupation
Palestinsko-americká profesorka antropologie, zabývá se gender, postavením ženy ve společnosti, zejména na Středním Východě, specialistka na arabský svět.
Wikipedia articles:

Other notable figures named Lila

Get inspired by other figures bearing this name across history and modern times.

Lila Downsová
MX
born 1968Notable Figure

Mexican-American singer-songwriter

Lila Tretikovová
US
born 1978Notable Figure

Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Lila Kedrova
FR
1909 – 2000Historical Figure

actress (1909–2000)

Lila Lee
US
1901 – 1973Historical Figure

prominent screen actress of the silent film era (1901-1973)