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Department of Anthropology
The Johns Hopkins University
404 Macaulay Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone 410-516-7272
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Niloofar Haeri


Professor
Phone: (410) 516-5442
email: haeri@jhu.edu
403 Macaulay
 

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Research Interests:

Role of language in the emergence and constitution of modernity, diverse understandings of the public sphere, dress codes across cultures, gender, language ideology, vernacular and Classical Arabic, Egypt and the Middle East

Major Publications:

  • Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt. 2003. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics: Papers Published by Charles Ferguson 1948 1992.  1997. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill. Co-written and co-edited with K. Belnap.
  • The Sociolinguistic Market of Cair Gender, Class, and Education. 1996.  London, New York: Kegan Paul International.
  • The uses and abuses of Classical Arabic. In Transeuropeennes, Vol. 23, special
    issue on Religions in Politics. 2003. (French-English bilingual journal published in Paris).
  • Form and ideology: Arabic sociolinguistics and beyond. 2000. Annual Review of Anthropology, 29:61-87.
  • 1997 The Reproduction of symbolic capital: Language, state, and class in Egypt. 1997. Current Anthropology, 38 (5): 795-805, reply: 811-816.

Newspaper Articles:

Works in Progress:
  • Pluralism in the Arab world: A critique of the Arab Human Development Reports.
  • The consequences of vernacularization: India, Europe and the Arab world.  
  • Copy-editing, text regulation, and style manuals: Language and political ideology in Le Monde, the Guardian and Egyptian newspapers.

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