SCHOOL of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

American University · Washington, D.C.

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Loubna Skalli Hanna

Loubna Skalli Hanna
E-mail: hanna@american.edu
Phone:(202) 885-1650

Professor Loubna Skalli Hanna’s research and teaching are in the areas of development, communications and culture, with a particular focus on gender in the Middle East and North Africa. She has taught at Ibn Tofail University in Morocco (1987-2002); coordinated and run the “The Gender and Development Seminar” in the Cross-Cultural Center of Leaning in Rabat, Morocco (1992-2002) and taught culture and communications at the Institute of Language and Communication Studies in Rabat (2000-2002).

She is the co-author of Vulture Culture: the Politics and Pedagogy of Talk Shows (Peter Lang, 2005); author of a forthcoming book on the "The Articulation of the Local and the Global: Women’s Press in Morocco" (Rowman and Littlefield), and has published numerous articles and book chapters.

Professor Skalli-Hanna was a Fulbright Scholar between 1996-2000; a member of the UNESCO Chair on “Women and their Rights”, and an active member of multiple inter/national non-government organizations.

She received her M.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies from Essex University, England, and her PH. D in Mass Communications from The Pennsylvania State University.

Back to: Faculty Directory | Faculty Directory -- By Department | SIS Home