Majid Hannoum
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - AnthropologyAssociate Professor
ahannoum@ku.edu
Primary office:
785-864-2650
Fraser Hall
Room 636
Room 636
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Education
Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies/Anthropology, Princeton University
M.A., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Ph.D., Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of Sorbonne
Advanced Graduate Degree (Diplôme d’études approfondies), Histoire et Civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Advanced Graduate Degree (Diplôme d’études approfondies), Arabic Literature, University of Sorbonne (distinction)
Maîtrise, Arabic Literature, University of Fez
B.A., Arabic Language and Literature, University of Fez
Research Interests
- Anthropology and history
- Cultural identity
- Political modernity
- Nationalism
- Narrative and memory
- Comparative historiography
- Violence and the state
- Islam and politics
- Cities and citizenship
- Colonialism and postcoloniality
- Semiotics and discourse analysis
- Social theory
- Theories of translation
- Globalization
- African migration to Europe
- North Africa
- Middle East
- France
