Majid Hannoum
Professor
Ph.D., Sorbonne 1991; Ph.D., Princeton 1996
Fall 2021 Office Hours:
In-Person Office Hours: Tues. and Thur. 1pm - 2pm or by appointment. Zoom meetings can be arranged, contact me.
ahannoum@ku.edu
Primary office:
785.864.2650
Fraser Hall, 636
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Research Areas: Anthropology and history, social theory, cultural identity, political modernity, historiography and memory, religion and politics, violence and the state, immigration and globalization, Middle East, North Africa, France
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
Courses Recently Taught
- Religion,Power, and Sexuality in Arab Societies
- Current Cultural Anthropology
- Magic, Science, and Religion
