Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
Part-time Faculty
mal6@nyu.edu
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Office Hours
Wednesday 5:30-7:00 (REMOTE)
B.A./M.A., Anthropology, CUNY Hunter College, 1983
Ph.D., Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, 1990
Maria-Luisa 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 Silence: The Currency of Power (Berghahn Books, 2006), a volume which she edited. She has been involved in a concerted effort to bridge the gap between academia and the general public by serving, from 2005-2007, as co-chair of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences and as an organizer and participant in a session titled Bamboozling the Public: Ignorance or Design in the Distortion of Science? (AAA National Meetings, Washington, DC, 2007). She is the co-chair of the Columbia University Culture, Power, and Boundaries seminar.
Books
2005
Maria-Luisa Achino Loeb's Silence: The Currency of Power, was published by Berghahn Books.
Teaching and Research Interests
the study of silence; language and culture; migrations ethnicity and identity; rhetoric and religious movements
Recent News
Professor Achino-Loeb has served as co-chair of the Culture, Power, and Boundaries seminar at Columbia University. University Seminars at Columbia University were founded as a forum for faculty to gather together across disciplines.
Courses
2023 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2022 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2021 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2020 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2019 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2018 Spring
Language, Globalization, and the Self
2017 Spring
