Lilith Mahmud

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Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies
School of Humanities
Associate Professor of Anthropology
School of Social Sciences

Ph.D., Harvard University, Anthropology


M.A., Harvard University, Social Anthropology


B.A., Columbia University, Anthropology, Psychology

Phone: (949) 824-2376
Fax: (949) 824-7006
Email: lmahmud@uci.edu

University of California, Irvine
Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
3214 Humanities Gateway
Mail Code: 2655
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Freemasonry, elites, gender, nationalism, race, citizenship, critical studies of Europe, secrecy, transparency, knowledge production, secret societies, power
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Research Abstract
FREQUENTLY TAUGHT UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
WS 50b - "Gender & Power"
WS 100a - "Knowledge and Social Change"
WS 110a - "Gender, State, and Nation"
WS 110b - "Money, Sex, and Power"
Ws 155 - "Conspiracy Theories"
WS 197 - "Senior Seminar"

GRADUATE SEMINARS
WS 201/ Anthro 289 - "Love, Terror, and the New World Order"
WS 200a - "Feminist Knowledges"
WS 200b - "Problems in Feminist Research"
Publications
2014. "The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges." Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo17041333.html

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-brotherhood-of-freemason-sisters-lilith-mahmud/1117105818?ean=9780226095868

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Brotherhood-Freemason-Sisters-Fraternity/dp/022609586X
 
2013. "The Profane Ethnographer: Fieldwork with A Secretive Organisation." In Organisational Anthropology: doing ethnography in and among complex organisations. Garsten, Christina and A. Nyqvist, eds. London: Pluto Press; 189-207. http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745332475


2012. "In The Name of Transparency: Gender, Terrorism, and Masonic Conspiracies in Italy." Anthropological Quarterly. 85.4: 1177-1207. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v085/85.4.mahmud.pdf


2012. "'The world is a forest of symbols': Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion." American Ethnologist 39.2: 425-438. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01373.x/abstract


2011. “An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race by Heather Merrill." Book review. American Ethnologist 38.3: 596-597


2009. "Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong." Book review. American Ethnologist 36.4: 814.


2008. "Inclusionary rhetoric/exclusionary practices : left-wing politics and migrants in Italy by Davide Pero’." Book review. American Ethnologist 35.2: 2086-2088.
Grants
UCI CORCL Single Investigator Grant.
UCI Humanities Collective Collaborative Research Grant.
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Writing Fellowship.
SSRC IDRF grant
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Fieldwork grant.
Professional Societies
American Anthropological Association
Association for Feminist Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
National Women's Studies Association
Other Experience
Book Reviews Editor
American Anthropologist 2010—2013

Evaluator, Social Sciences Framework Research Programme 7 grants
European Commission Reserch Directorate General 2008—2009

Shadow Editor
Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2005—2007

Research Center
Center for Ethnography
Link to this profile
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5546
Last updated
12/15/2014