Beck, Lois (Conchita Grant) 1944-
Beck, Lois (Conchita Grant) 1944-
PERSONAL: Born November 5, 1944, in Bogotá, Colombia; daughter of Martin (a university professor) and Dorothy Grant; married Henry Huang (a university professor); children: Julia. Education: Portland State University, B.A., 1967; University of Chicago, M.A., 1969, Ph.D., 1977.
ADDRESSES: Home—Olivette, MO. Office—Washington University, Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 1114, 1 Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130.
CAREER: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, professor of anthropology, 1980-.
WRITINGS:
(Editor, with Nikki Keddie) Women in the Muslim World, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1978.
The Qashqa'i of Iran, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1986.
Nomad: A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
(Editor, with Guity Nashat) Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2003.
(Editor, with Guity Nashat) Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2004.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
American Historical Review, February, 1988, F. R. C. Bagley, review of The Qashqa'i of Iran, pp. 199-200.
Middle Eastern Studies, October, 1993, Madawi Al-Rasheed, review of Nomad: A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran, p. 764.