Loukia K. Sarroub
Melvin C. & Jane N. Nore Professor and Department Chair Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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CPEH 230G
Lincoln NE 68588-0233 - Phone
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4029371808
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lsarroub@unl.edu
- Website
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loukiaksarroub.com
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My primary areas of interest in research and teaching include literacy studies and adolescent literacies; language and culture and sociolinguistic analyses; anthropology and education; cross-cultural studies; immigrant communities in the US and Europe; youth cultures; Middle Eastern populations in the US, including fieldwork and research in Yemeni and Iraqi communities; ethnography and qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, language and gender in education; education policy and social analysis. I have a courtesy appointment in the Department of Anthropology, and I am affiliated with the following: the Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools; the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Measurement in Education Program; and, Women and Gender Studies.
Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University
B.A. with High Distinction, University of Chicago
Public Media Highlights
- Signing Day: LHS Seniors Committee to Being Future Educators (Lincoln Public Schools News, April 15, 2024) https://www.lps.org/post/detail.cfm?id=15308
- Interviewed and cited in "Two of 21st Century's Most Toxic Words: Why Climate Change has Become Political by Lauren Dietrich, July 2020:
https://climatechangenebraska.com/2020/07/03/two-of-the-21st-centurys-most-controversial-words. - Interviewed and research cited for Washington, DC- based Weekly Standard news article, The Girls Who Go Away by Kaylee McGee, June 22, 2018: https://www.weeklystandard.com/kaylee-mcghee/meet-the-yemeni-child-brides-of-dearborn-michigan
- Featured by the Lincoln Journal Star’s Cindy Lange-Kubick, In the Silence, the Suffering of Yemen,https://journalstar.com/news/local/cindy-lange-kubick-in-the-silence-the-suffering-of-yemen/article_bc0ca21e-2dda-5b08-a268-460c909c6535.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
- Invited to be Panelist for public Film Screening and Post-Screening Discussion of “Between Allah and Me (And Everyone Else)" (2017) as part of a joint Women's and Gender Studies colloquia series on Gender, Fashion, and Media. Ross Theater, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Publication featured as “scintillating study”: http://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2015/11/12/boys-speak-out-on-reading
- AERA Division G. (October 2014), (Inter)National Social Justice Issues and the Academy Podcast featuring Dr. Loukia K. Sarroub (UNL) & Dr. Warren Chezare (MSU) https://aeradivg.wordpress.com/divgpodcasts
- Sarroub, L.K. (Sunday, September 11, 2011). The wanding of America: Who we are now. Lincoln Journal Star, (p. B13). http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/article_6b4f87a8-8dbb-5767-bff5-6a30cdd85cc0.html
- Interview with Loukia K. Sarroub. Yemeni culture in the US, #5. Discovering Yemen. Available on iTunes U, PRI Radio International, America Abroad.
For more information about my work and publications, please visit my website, loukiaksarroub.com.
Honors and Recognition
- 2024 recipient of the Women of Courage, Character, and Commitment Award for the betterment of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus community
- 2022 Fellow, Big Ten Academic Alliance Department Executive Officers
- 2018 Parents' Recognition Award for Contributions to Students, University of Nebraska Parents Association
- 2012 Recipient of College Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Sciences
- 2005 Recipient of the National Reading Conference/Literacy Research Association Edward Fry Book Award for All American Yemeni girls: Being Muslim in a public school (2005)
- 2003 Recipient of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Distinguished Membership for contributions to the classroom, the campus, and the community, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Memberships
- Member of the American Educational Research Association
- Member of the Literacy Research Association
- Member of Council on Anthropology and Education
- Member of the American Anthropology Association