Janet abu lughod biography of christopher

This article discusses the intellectual context of Abu-Lughod's work on the World System and its relation to revision of inherited Eurocentric interpretations..

Janet Abu-Lughod was a remarkable scholar and bequeathed a significant legacy to the historical social sciences.

This article discusses the intellectual context of Abu-Lughod's work on the World System and its relation to revision of inherited Eurocentric interpretations.

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Now a professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Buffalo, Christopher was one of our former students from the New School, and one of the.

Janet Abu-Lughod

American sociologist and historian

Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist who made major contributions to world-systems theory and urban sociology.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Raised in Newark, New Jersey, United States, she attended Weequahic High School,^[3] where she 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 1950-1952 Abu-Lughod was a director of research for the American Society of Planning Officials, in 1954-1957 – research associate at the University of Pennsylvania, consultant and author for the