Lauren Wagner (L.B.)
I am a post-disciplinary social scientist, with roots in sociology, anthropology, geography, & sociolinguistics, and interests in categorization and belonging, ethnomethodology and practice, migration and diaspora, leisure and consumption, & complexity and nonlinear dynamics.
I am currently in the Department of Technology and Society Studies, and the Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development Research Group (https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/globalisation-transnationalism-and-development)
migration & diaspora
Moroccan communities in Europe
mobile lifestyles
I originally studied film production at New York University with the intent to make documentary film, and then moved into Linguistic Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, where I received my Masters with a thesis on tourism and language in Morocco. I then passed a second postgraduate degree (Masters 2 Recherche) at Paris V – René Descartes in Sociolinguistics, with a thesis on linguistic practices of diasporic visitors in Moroccan markets. I completed my PhD thesis in Human Geography at University College London, combining my previous research with recent theories from geography about embodiment, assemblage, and mobilities. I then completed a postdoctoral project on tourism and urban development in Morocco at Wageningen University with Claudio Minca. I joined Maastricht University as Assistant Professor in Globalisation and Development in 2015, and am now Associate Professor in Diasporic Mobilities in the Department of Society Studies.
Lauren Wagner (L.B.)
Associate Professor in Diasporic Mobilities
Programme Director, MA Globalisation & Development Studies
Alumni, Maastricht Young Academy