Dr. Majid Hannoum, a graduate of Princeton University and of the universities of Fez and Sorbonne, is an assistant professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He lectures on North African and Arab societies, especially in the areas of Islamic social and political movements; Islam, colonialism, and nationalism in North Africa; and religion, power, and sexuality in Arab societies. He has had experience teaching at Simon's Rock College of Bard, the New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College, and the College of New Jersey.
He is the author of Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories and of many articles that have appeared in Theory, Culture, & Society; Awal: Cahiers d'Etudes Berbéres; American Anthropologist; Cultural Dynamics; Journal of North African Studies; History and Theory; Anthropology News; History and Anthropology; African Studies Review; La Sociologie musulmane de Robert Montagne; Annales: Hisotoire et Sciences Sociales; Mediterraneans; L'Homme: Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie; Studia Islamica; and Hespéris-Tamuda. A book manuscript, "Colonizing the Imaginary: Culture and Events in North Africa," is under review. He is currently working on a book project, "The Formation of the Secular in Egypt."
Dr. Hannoum has received fellowships/grants at Harvard, Princeton, New School for Social Research and Columbia. He is also the recipient of the Newcomer's award at Simon's Rock College of Bard. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association and the American Ethnological Society.
