Professor Achino-Loeb is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the study of ideology and its connection to power and identity. She has developed and taught courses on Silence, Language and Culture, Migration and Identity, and Globalization. Her work has been published in several journals, including American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, and in the volume she edited, Silence: The Currency of Power (Berghahn Books, 2006). She has been involved in a concerted effort to bridge the gap between academia and the general public though various venues: as cochair of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences (2005-2007), and as organizer and participant in a session titled Bamboozling the Public: Ignorance or Design in the Distortion of Science? (AAA National Meetings, Washington, D.C., 2007). Currently, she cochairs the Columbia University Culture, Power, and Boundaries seminar.
