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Professor Hoffman is a linguistic, sociocultural, and legal anthropologist, who specializes in the relationship between expressive culture, ethnicity, law, history, and political economy. Her research explores this nexus primarily in North Africa, and especially Morocco, from the late 19th c. to the present, particularly as it has been shaped by the processes of French colonialism, anti-imperialism, nationalism, and postnationalism.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, Columbia University
… → 2000
MPhil, Columbia University
… → 1997
MA, Columbia University
… → 1994
History, AB, Georgetown University
… → 1989
Research interests keywords
- Forced migration
- Legal culture and history
- Refugees
- Expressive Culture
- Indigenism
- Language Ideologies
- , Language Shift and Endangerment
- Rural-Urban Relations
- Gender
- French Colonialism
- Imazighen (Berbers)
- Morocco/North Africa
- France
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal Practices of State Neutrality in Educational Settings
Hoffman, K. E. (PD/PI)
9/1/19 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
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Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
Hoffman, K. E. (Subproject PI)
10/1/12 → 3/31/14
Project: Research project
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Revolution's Refugees: Displaced Libyans in Tunisia and the Formation of Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Consciousness
Hoffman, K. E. (PD/PI)
9/15/11 → 8/31/12
Project: Research project
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Anthropology in the Archives: History in Gendered Testimony and Text
Hoffman, K. E., 2021, In: Hesperis-Tamuda. 56, 1, p. 35-58 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Archival Ethnography in the Customary Courts: Legal and Linguistic Pluralism under French Protectorate
Hoffman, K. E., 2020, In: Hesperis-Tamuda. 55, 2, p. 77-93 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pratiques juridiques et idéologies langagières dans un tribunal non officiellement multilingue (Judicial Practices and Language Ideologies in an Unofficially Multilingual Court)
Hoffman, K. E., 2015, In: Anthropologie et Sociétés. 39, 3, p. 29-50 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Berbers, borders, and breakdown in the 2011 libyan civil war
Hoffman, K. E., Jun 9 2014, On the ground: new directions in Middle East and North African studies (Working papers from Northwestern University in Qatar Doha). Edwards, B. T. (ed.). 1st edition ed. Dubai, UAE: Akkadia PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Le droit coutumier amazigh au Maroc (Amazigh customary law in Morocco)
Hoffman, K. E., Jan 5 2013, In: Perspectives. p. 3-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review