Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at columbia university in new york”. Today it says “american anthropologist”.
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Lila Abu-Lughod is an American professor of anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York, daughter of prominent Palestinian academic Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the American sociologist Janet Lippman . She graduated from Carleton College in 1974, and obtained her PhD from Harvard University in 1984. She is married to Columbia University professor of Middle Eastern politics Timothy Mitchell . Abu-Lughod has taught at Williams College , Princeton University , and New York University , and has become known for her research on the Bedouin from the Awlad 'Ali tribe in Egypt. In 2001, she delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester , considered by many to be the most important annual lecture series in the field of anthropology. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007 to research the topic: "Do Muslim Women Have Rights? The Ethics and Politics of Muslim Women's Rights in an International Field." She supports an academic boycott of Israel.1
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Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American with Palestinian and Jewish ancestry who is professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York City.A specialist of the Arab world, her seven books, most based on long term ethnographic research, cover topics from sentiment and poetry to nationalism and media, from gender politics to the politics of memory .
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Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is a Palestinian-American anthropologist .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 .
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Palestinian-American anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is a Palestinian-American anthropologist . 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 .
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American anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod ( Arabic : ليلى أبو لغد ) (born 1952) is an American anthropologist . 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 .
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american professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at columbia university in new york
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american anthropologist
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