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Linda Herrera (PhD Columbia University, MA, American University in
Cairo, BA UC Berkeley) joined the Department of Educational Policy
Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Associate
Professor and core staff in the Global Studies in Education MA program
in January 2011. Prior to that she was a Senior Lecturer in
International Development Studies (2005-2010) at the International
Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam where she
was Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies MA specialization. Her
major research interests and writing are around issues of Youth and
citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); critical
ethnography of schooling; youth, employment and international
development policy; democracy and education; and, more recently, youth,
new media and Arab Revolution.
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