Lucine Taminian

Lucine Taminian received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology in 2001 from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the ethnographic history of three Yemeni poetic genres. She is interested in expressive cultures, oral history, politics of identity, urbanity and food production. Lucine has taught anthropology, expressive cultures, social thought and methodology at universities in Jordan, the USA, and Yemen. She edited three books on Yemen and translated numerous scholarly articles from English to Arabic. She was the reviewer for several refereed journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Economics and Refuge. She has carried out field research in Jordan, Yemen, and Lebanon and was the consultant and/or senior researcher for a number of research projects, including the Oral Histories of Iraqis Living Outside Iraq, Ifpo-Goethe Institute oral history projects and currently The Arab Council for Social Sciences project on Social Sciences in Iraq. She was a board member of The Arab Council for Social Sciences and a member of WOCMES advisory committee.