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Email:	lgifford@bu.edu
Office:	232 Bay State 101D
Phone:	353-5014
Fax:	353-2610
Office Hours:	TW 2-3

Lindsay Gifford

Part-time Lecturer in Arabic

Lindsay Gifford is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Boston
University, where she teaches Elementary Modern Arabic I and II and is a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology. Her research interests include Syria and the Middle East, Muslim societies, political and economic anthropology, and gender issues in the Middle East.

She is currently writing her dissertation under the title "Getting By in Damascus," which looks at the ways Syrians get by not only financially, but also socially and psychologically living under an authoritarian regime and in a patriarchal culture, experiencing the tensions of integrating modern economic models and media with traditional patriarchal values. The research for her dissertation was conducted in 2006/2007 with the support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. Lindsay was a Dean's Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2002 to 2006.