Majid Hannoum
- Professor
- Social and Behavioral Sciences Anthropology
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Ph.D., Princeton, 1996
- Spring 2024 Office Hours: Tues. and Thurs. 10-11:00am; and by appointment - send email to ahannoum@ku.edu
Contact Info
Fraser Hall, 636
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
Personal Links
Biography —
Courses Recently Taught
- Religion,Power, and Sexuality in Arab Societies
- Current Cultural Anthropology
- Magic, Science, and Religion
Education —
Ph.D. in Princeton, 1996
Sorbonne, 1991
Research —
Research Areas: Middle East, North Africa, France
Research interests:
- Anthropology and history
- migration and the law
- political modernity
- narrative and memory
- comparative historiography
- violence and the state
- Islam and politics
- secularism
- cities and citizenship
- colonialism and postcoloniality
- semiotics and discourse analysis
- phenomenology
Selected Publications —
- Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary Knowledge, New York: Routledge, 2023
- The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ยท Jun 10, 2021Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
- Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020
- Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, New York: Routledge, 2016
- Violent Modernity: France in Algeria , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010
- Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, A North African Heroine. CT: Greenwood, 2001