Contact Information
1310 S. Sixth St.
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
Linda Herrera (PhD Columbia University) is a social anthropologist with regional expertise in North Africa and West Asia. Her research examines questions around education and critical democracy, the sociology of generations, international development policy, and pathways to citizenship and livelihoods in an age of digital transformation, precarity, and a changing global order.
Research Interests
Linda Herrera is a social anthropologist with regional expertise in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with longstanding interests in education and power, youth and generations, childhood in global context, and the social effects of technological change. Her work interrogrates these topics through a wider lens of global change, critical pedagogy, and movements for critical democracy.
Education
Anthropology/Sociology, MA, American University in Cairo
Comparative and International Education, PhD, Columbia University
Middle East Studies, BA, University of California, Berkeley
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Herrera, L. (2022). Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles. (1 ed.) American University in Cairo Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2k88tm5
Bayat, A., & Herrera, L. (Eds.) (2021). Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century. (The Global Square; Vol. 3). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1h9dk55
Herrera, L. (2014). Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet. Verso.
Herrera, L. (2014). Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East. (Critical Youth Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203747575
Herrera, L., & Bayat, A. (2010). Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369212.001.0001
Herrera, L., & Torres, C. A. (Eds.) (2006). Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt. SUNY Press.
Herrera, L. (2017). It's Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as The Precariat. Middle East - Topics & Arguments, 9, 35-44. https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.9.7061
Recent Publications
Herrera, L. (2022). Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles. (1 ed.) American University in Cairo Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2k88tm5
Bayat, A., & Herrera, L. (Eds.) (2021). Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century. (The Global Square; Vol. 3). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1h9dk55
Bayat, A., & Herrera, L. (2021). Global Middle East-Introduction. In A. Bayat, & L. Herrera (Eds.), Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (pp. 3-21). (The Global Square; Vol. 3). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520968127-004
Herrera, L. (2021). Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla Benhabib. In A. Bayat, & L. Herrera (Eds.), Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (pp. 319-330). (The Global Square; Vol. 3). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520968127-027
Herrera, L. (2018). Media and the Arab Family. In S. Joseph (Ed.), Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews (pp. 437-448). (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East). Syracuse University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pk860c.30