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Katherine E. Hoffman
Katherine E. Hoffman (Ph.D., Columbia University), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is a linguistic anthropologist and ethnographer. She is the author of “We Share Walls”: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco (forthcoming 2007, Blackwell). Her research interests include North Africa and especially Berbers (Imazighen), ethnicity, gender, endangered and indigenous languages, political economy and especially land tenure, comparative rural studies, and the speech-song relationship, on which she has published in Language and Communication, American Ethnologist, the Journal of North African Studies, and Ethnomusicology. Currently she is researching the role of language ideologies in French colonial native policies in North and West Africa. This archival project is supported by the American Council of Learned Societies’ Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship. Previous ethnographic research was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright/IIE, and the Camargo Foundation. She has consulted extensively on film and print media projects concerning Morocco and the Muslim world. |
