Lara deeb
lara deeb is a professor of anthropology and her research interests include politics of knowledge production; gender and sexuality; religion, especially Islam; transnational feminism; and the Middle East, especially Lebanon.
biography
Professor Deeb's current book project uses social responses to intersectarian and interreligious relationships and marriages in Lebanon to better understand social sectarianism and sect as a form of social difference. One of her most important researches is "An enchanted modern:Gender and public piety in Shi'i Lebanon".
Selected Research and Publications
Book
- Deeb, Lara and Jessica Winegar. 2015. Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East. Stanford University Press
- Deeb, Lara and Mona Harb. 2013. Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi'i South Beirut. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- 2006: An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Article
- Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Duke University Press, Volume 25, Number 1, 2005. pp. 122-137
- “Doing Good, Like Sayyida Zaynab”: Lebanese Shi‘I Women’s Participation in the Public Sphere. Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. pp 85-107.
Awards and Honors
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Collaborative Research Fellowship for project: ""Constructing and Negotiating the Islamic Milieu: New Moralities and Spatialities in Shi'i Lebanon,"" with Mona Harb (American University of Beirut) (2009-2011) Wenner-Gren International Collaborative Research Grant for project: ""Faith and Fun: Pious Entertainment in Shi'i South Beirut,"" with Mona Harb of the American University of Beirut (2008-2009) Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award for Social Sciences, Middle East Studies Association (2004) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2003-2004 and 2006-2007)