https://www.cecileeverstraore.com/home daily 1.0 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633189065129-SBB0G1JNMO7MSGWO4FBN/Dr.+Cecile+Evers+%28Traore%29.jpg Cecile Evers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633192894633-PCUTIH7OE3RTIERDK0HM/Cecile+Evers+Reaearch.jpg Cecile Evers - Research My research focuses on how, through language, religious practices, and creative use of media, French-Muslim youth of color express their identities and cultural citizenship. My current project is an ethnographic monograph spanning Marseille and the African cities of Fes (Morocco), Algiers (Algeria), and Mamoudzou (Mayotte). Entitled Flipping French and Arabic: Language, Belonging, and Mobility among Muslim Youth in Marseille, it reveals how young Muslims from Marseille flip narrow notions of French belonging (francité) and assert their identities—as Marseillais, French, Mediterranean, and members of the Muslim community of believers (Ummah)—by transgressing established modes of using the French and Arabic languages and, in some cases, relocating within France and to African cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633468658387-424SQ934MGR14WWUFY34/Teaching+Photo+Small.jpg Cecile Evers - Teaching I teach linguistic and cultural anthropology at Pomona College. My area of expertise includes language and culture, the anthropology of youth, embodied religion, the Mediterranean borderlands, semiotics, new media and communication, history of anthropology and linguistics, and the evolution of human language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633722003959-1IRGDIEG5AKIREI4FWJA/IMG_0842.jpg Cecile Evers - About Learn more about my educational background, professional accomplishments, and personal interests. https://www.cecileeverstraore.com/research daily 0.75 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633722234859-M33E4EJY8Q57I56EAHN7/2012-10-21_13-50-56_242+copy.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633202258936-HKPQD1BHJMC8F44CBKB8/Linguistic+Anthropology Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633471172027-D5VMV42WGVCNUPR1DAHW/Artboard-1-1.png Research https://www.cecileeverstraore.com/teaching daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633732530590-OOCM207BDZQ2G1FFWL7N/Screen+Shot+2021-10-08+at+3.33.23+PM.png Teaching - Always threaded throughout my courses is an emphasis on how we, as scholars and citizens, can leverage the detailed study of language to combat linguistic discrimination and fight for social justice. As such, students work ethnographically with communities of their choosing as they learn about our theories and methods. And my questions to them as they undertake this research are always the following: how are people’s most minimal sayings-and-doings speaking to larger sociopolitical issues? What are the social justice implications of your research? https://www.cecileeverstraore.com/about daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633464592912-AKLB9C38S98DEOJZY1ZW/Grad+Photo+Small.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633712923999-9AZGFK5ZD29J51ED99BK/Cambridge%2C+England+%231.jpg About I wear a number of hats, often at once! I'm from San Francisco, where I grew up within a French-American family. I stayed close-by for college, going to UC Berkeley, and then moved to work as a linguist for an NGO in Dakar, Senegal. Miraculously, I then met my husband, who is from Senegal, while in San Francisco! After both finishing our doctorates, we moved to Claremont, California, where we live with our four kids (16, 4, 3, and 5 months). We both enjoy teaching at Pomona College. When we're not teaching though, our family loves to play at the beach, cook Senegalese and French meals, work on our garden, Facetime with family members around the globe (SF, Paris, Thiès), and dance to some Kassav' playing on the turntable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/f4e3cfef-9144-4105-a39c-43a816f4f898/Claremont%2C+CA+%231.jpeg About Claremont, CA, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/27aa1b98-0ce8-427d-9920-97ebeb67c477/Claremont%2C+CA+%232.jpg About Claremont, CA, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/719f6713-55e9-4105-9f37-aaf1dbca857a/San+Fran%2C+CA+%231.jpeg About San Francisco, CA, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/38f6de0e-a74f-4c8d-bd25-85702b54d94f/Paris%2C+France+%232.jpeg About Paris, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/8aa822d5-5d3d-4d14-b6de-3124359f07cb/Paris%2C+France+%231.jpeg About Paris, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/34795f53-be4b-4b7a-adac-7a74e6b9660f/Kansai%2C+Japan+%231.jpeg About Kansai, Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/cc33fbd5-d269-4310-aed3-e8c84561b890/Kyoto%2C+Japan+%231.jpeg About Kyoto, Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633712891302-XMITS2VJGU05U8V6ASYH/Theis%252C%2BSenegal%2B%25231.jpg About Thiès, Senegal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/a4ce06c6-5024-4214-8844-cee9bcb50b2f/Theis%2C+Senegal+%232.jpeg About Thiès, Senegal https://www.cecileeverstraore.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6153574d9e69694789c03777/1633465784526-EACY4JF35TY82CBENQ02/talking-heads-2.jpg Contact - Contact Cécile Evers (Traoré) cecile.traore@pomona.edu (909) 607-7347 420 N. 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