Niloofar haeri biography of barack

Iranian-American linguist and anthropologist

Niloofar Haeri (Persian: نیلوفر حائری) is an Iranian-American anthropologist and linguist.

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She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Biography

Haeri received her BA and PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her dissertation on gender and linguistic innovation was written under the supervision of William Labov, Gillian Sankoff, and Charles Ferguson.^[1][2]

Her book, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press), won two awards: The American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, and The Middle East Studies Association Fatema Mernissi Book Award for outstanding scholarship in studies of gender, sexuality, and women's lived experience.^[3]

She is the author and co-editor of sev