Biography
Linda Herrera is a social anthropologist with regional expertise in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Prior to joining the Global Studies in Education program in the College of Education at UIUC in 2011, she was Senior Lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam where she was convenor of the Children and Youth Studies specializaiton. Her longstanding interests are in education and power, youth and citizenship, international development and critical democracy, and the social effects of technological change. In the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, she has worked on youth precarity and livelihoods and education reform in a changing global order. Her books include, Educating Egypt, Global Middle East, Revoultion in the Age of Social Media, Wired Citizenship, Being Young and Muslilm, and Cultures of Arab Schooling. She has also curated the website of Egypt's national education reform, the Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project and the YouTube channels Critical Voices in Critical Times, Democracy Dialogue, and Education 2.0.
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 citizenship, and international development and critical democracy. In the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, she became concerned with questions about youth precarity and livelihoods, the social effects of digital transformation, and education reform in a changing global order.
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
Highlighted Publications
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. (2022). Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles. (1 ed.) American University in Cairo Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2k88tm5
Herrera, L. (2014). Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet. Verso.
Herrera, L., & Sakr, R. (2014). Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East. (Critical Youth Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203747575
Bayat, A., & Herrera, L. (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. (2021). Global Middle East. 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
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). Preface. In Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (pp. xi-xii). University of California Press.
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