Abdelmajid Hannoum is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA. He earned a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University, France and a second Ph.D. from Princeton University, USA. He is the editor of Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa (2016), and author of Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary Knowledge (2023); The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East (2021); Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City (2020); Violent Modernity: France in Algeria (2010) and Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine (2001). He taught at Princeton University, the College of New Jersey, the New School for Social Research in NYC, and Bard College. He was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Study at Harvard, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, a Senior Fulbright Fellow (twice), and a Senior Fellow at the Aga Khan Center in London.
