Loubna Hanna Skalli

Loubna Hanna-Skalli is currently teaching at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. Prior to this position, she taught at Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (1987-2002) where she was an Associate Professor. She also held faculty appointments at the Cross Cultural Center of Learning, the Institute for Language and Communication Studies in Rabat, and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She received her B.A. from Mohammed V University, Morocco, her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Essex University, England, and her Ph.D. in Communication and International Media from The Pennsylvania State University. She has joined International Development Program at American University where she has been teaching on youth, gender, generation and development since 2003 and is actively coordinating the M.A. concentration in Youth/Children and Development. She is the author of Through a Local Prism: Gender, Globalization and Identity in Moroccan Women’s Magazines (Roman and Littlefield, 2006 –reprinted 2008), co-author of Vulture Culture: The Politics and Pedagogy of Talkshows (Peter Lang, 2005), author of a forthcoming book Young Change Makers: Engaging Middle Eastern Youth and guest editor of a forthcoming special issue on “Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa” (Journal of Middle East Culture and Media). In addition to several book chapters and encyclopedia entries, her recent articles have appeared in the Middle East Journal, Middle East Journal of Women Studies, Feminist Review, Gender and Society, and International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Dr. Loubna Hanna Skalli was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for International Scholars, an International Fellowship from the Institute in Governance, Public Policy and Civil Society (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) and a grant from the American Consortium on European Union Studies.