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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
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Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, Columbia University
… → 2000
MPhil, Columbia University
… → 1997
MA, Columbia University
… → 1994
History, AB, Georgetown University
… → 1989
Research interests
- 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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Grants
- 3 Finished
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal Practices of State Neutrality in Educational Settings
9/1/19 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
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Revolution's Refugees: Displaced Libyans in Tunisia and the Formation of Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Consciousness
9/15/11 → 8/31/12
Project: Research project
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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
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Le serment, les marabouts et la mosquée dans le droit coutumier berbère au Maroc (The oath, the marabouts and the mosque in the Morocco Berber customary law)
Hoffman, K. E., 2013, Les Justices de l’Invisible (The Justices of the Invisible). Verdier, R., Kalnoky, N. & Kerneïs, S. (eds.). Paris, FR: L'Harmatta (The Harmatta), p. 373-390Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Suspicion, secrecy, and uncomfortable negotiations over knowledge production in southwestern Morocco
Hoffman, K. E., Jan 1 2013, Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding. Indiana University Press, p. 99-115 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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