Janet Abu-Lughod
Janet Abu-Lughod | |
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Born | Janet Lippman August 3, 1928 Newark, New Jersey |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York City, New York |
Nationality | USA |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Occupation | Scholar |
Known for | Urban Studies |
Spouse(s) | Ibrahim Abu-Lughod m 1951, div. 1991 |
Children | Lila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad |
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod, (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist with major contributions to World-systems theory and Urban sociology.[1][2]
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Family
She was married in 1951–1991 to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. They had four children; Lila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad.[3]
Early life
While still at High school Janet was influenced by the works of Lewis Mumford about urbanization.[4]
Academia
Janet Abu-Lughod held graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her teaching career began at the University of Illinois, took her to the American University in Cairo, Smith College, and Northwestern University, where she taught for twenty years and directed several urban studies programmes. In 1987 she accepted a professorship in sociology and historical studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, from which she retired as professor emerita in 1998.[5] She published over a hundred articles and thirteen books dealing with urban sociology, the history and dynamics of the World System, and Middle Eastern cities, including an urban history of Cairo that is still considered one of the classic works on that city: Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious.
In 1976 she was awarded a John Guggenheim Memoral Fellowship for Sociology [6]
She was especially famous for her monograph Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 where she argued that a pre-modern world system extending across Eurasia existed in the 13th Century, prior to the formation of the modern world-system identified by Immanuel Wallerstein. In addition, she argued that the "rise of the West," beginning with the intrusion of armed Portuguese ships into the relatively peaceful trade networks of the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, was not a result of features internal to Europe, but was made possible by a collapse in the previous world system.
She published several well-received works on American cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities and Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
She died aged 85 in New York City on December 14, 2013.[1]
Works
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- 1928 births
- 2013 deaths
- American sociologists
- American historians
- University of Chicago alumni
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign faculty
- American University in Cairo faculty
- Smith College faculty
- Northwestern University faculty
- World system scholars
- American women academics
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American women historians
- Women sociologists
- American expatriates in Egypt