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Deborah Kapchan
Deborah Kapchan is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She writes on aesthetics, music, narrative and religion in North Africa and the North African diaspora. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (University of Pennsylvania, 1996), as well as Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). She has also written a third book, Poetic Justice: Translating Art and Ideology in Morocco (contracted with University of Texas Press). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays recipient, as well as a grantee of the American Institute of Maghreb Studies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.
