Kristin Gee Hickman

CONTACT 1511 E. 54th Street #2 Phone: (415) 939-5276

INFORMATION Chicago, IL 60615 Email: hickman@uchicago.edu

EDUCATION University of Chicago, Anthropology with a focus on Sociocultural and

Linguistic Anthropology, PhD, expected 2018/2019
Dissertation: Rvolution Darija? Negotiating linguistic being in
contemporary Morocco

University of Chicago, Anthropology with a focus on Sociocultural and

Linguistic Anthropology, MA, Spring 2013
Thesis: Training Linguistic Sensibilities: Memory, Memorization,
and the Writing of Moroccan Arabic

Barnard College, Anthropology and French and Francophone Studies,

B.A. 2007, magna cum laude

PUBLICATIONS January 2016. Translation of a poem from Moroccan Arabic by

Murd al-Kdir entitled Maqh al-muthallith al-mar. Words
Without Borders.

2008. "Rock the Kasbah: The Voices of the Oudaa's Unofficial Guides."
Where I'm From: Words and Images from Morocco, Ghana and Italy. New
York: NYU Press.

AWARDS AND Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Scholarship, 2014-2016

FELLOWSHIPS
Long-Term Research Grant, American Institute for Maghreb Studies,
2014-2015

Foreign Language Acquisition Scholarship, Center for Middle Eastern

Studies, University of Chicago, summer 2014

De la Vauvre Summer Research Fellowship, France Chicago Center,

University of Chicago, summer 2013

African Language Fund, Committee on African Studies, University of

Chicago, summer 2012

Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), CASA I Fellowship, The

University of Texas at Austin/American University in Cairo, 2011-2012

Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research, American
Philosophical Society, summer 2011

Critical Language Scholarship Program in Oman, Council of American

Overseas Research Centers, summer 2010
APPOINTMENTS Teaching Assistant Development of Social Cultural Theory 2:
& TEACHING The Making of Modern Anthropology (Professor Julie Chu)
Department of Anthropology, Spring 2017
University of Chicago

Preceptor BA Thesis Seminar

Global Studies, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
University of Chicago

Lecturer Power, Identity, Resistance II

Social Sciences Core and Civilization Studies, Fall 2016
University of Chicago

Course and Program Assistant Middle Eastern Civilizations

(Professors Fred Donner, Ahmed El Shamsy, and Lakhdar Choudar)
Civilizations Abroad Program in Rabat, Morocco, Winter 2016
University of Chicago

Teaching Assistant Anthropological Readings in Contemporary

Islam (Professor Hussein Ali Agrama)
Department of Anthropology, Fall 2014
University of Chicago

Preceptor Senior Seminar: Public Policy

Public Policy Studies, Fall 2013-Spring 2014
University of Chicago

Teaching Assistant Chicago Blues (Professor Michael Dietler)

Department of Anthropology, Spring 2013
University of Chicago

Intern Power, Identity, Resistance III (Professor Michael Fisch)

Social Sciences Core and Civilization Studies, Spring 2013
University of Chicago

Intern Power, Identity, Resistance II (Professor Dan Slater)

Social Sciences Core and Civilization Studies, Winter 2013
University of Chicago

ACADEMIC Foreign Bodies, Moroccan Language: Negotiating Linguistic Imaginaries

PRESENTATIONS in Casablanca at 22nd Annual Moroccan Studies Symposium, Rabat,
May 7-8, 2015.

Darija has no grammar: A brief revisiting of the terms of the Darija

debate in Morocco, at 21st Annual Moroccan Studies Symposium,
Rabat, May 7-8, 2015.
 The Call to Colloquial Arabic: from Economic Efficiency to Linguistic
Rights, at Rabat Enrichment Seminar, Fulbright U.S. Student
Program, Rabat, March 2-6, 2015.

Scaling Down the Soundscape in Post-Arabization Morocco, at

Languages in Muslim Societies, Casa de Velzquez, Madrid, March
18, 2014

Transmitting Language Ideologies: Language Activists, Vernacular

Texts, and Insensible Readers in Contemporary Morocco, at
Mobility, Memory, and Material Worlds, University of Chicago/
Universit Paris Ouest Nanterre, Chicago, May 30-June 1, 2013.

WORKSHOPS & Conference: Mobility, Memory, and Material Worlds: Crossroads and
CONFERENCES Convergences, University of Chicago (Partner University Fund),
ORGANIZED May 30-June 1, 2013.

Workshop: Memory, Migration, Material Culture, University of

Chicago/Universit Paris-Ouest (Partner University Fund),
2012-2013.

Journe dtude: Stuff and Things: Disintegrating into Immateriality?,

Maison Archologie et Ethnologie Ren-Ginouvs (Universit Paris
Ouest Nanterre), December 4, 2012.

Panel: "Mututal Perceptions in Mass Media" at Middle East History and

Theory Conference, University of Chicago, May 13-14, 2011.

LANGUAGES English (native)

French (advanced)
Classical Arabic (advanced)
Moroccan Colloquial Arabic (advanced)
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (beginning)
Spanish (beginning)

FACULTY Hussein Ali Agrama (co-chair)

COMMITTEE Susan Gal (co-chair)
MEMBERS Julie Y. Chu