Lila Abu-Lughod
Department of Anthropology
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science
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Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and teaches in the Department of Anthropology and at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her courses focus on gender politics in the Muslim world, the cultures of nationalism, and the politics of liberalism and women's and human rights. A leading voice in debates about gender, Islam, and global power, her publications have been translated into more than 13 languages.
Professor Abu-Lughod's most recent books include Do Muslim Women Need Saving? and a thirtieth anniversary edition of Veiled Sentiments.
A founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies, she has co-edited with Ahmad Sa’di Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (2007) and has published on Palestinian archives, comparative settler colonialism, and museum politics, and serves on the board of The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit.
