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Jane Goodman

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1972
North African History and LiteratureMulticulturalism, Politics, Migration, GenderAfrican Studies and GeopoliticsCareer Development and DiversityLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis

Publications

87

Citations

2,474

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

55

Publishing since 1972

Research summary
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Jane Goodman studies the culture, performance, and social life of North Africa, with a particular focus on Algeria. Her work explores theatre, storytelling traditions like the halqa, music, and how Algerian cultural forms travel and change on a global stage, drawing on anthropological fieldwork. Some of her writing also addresses adult career development and life transitions.

North African and Algerian cultural studiesTheatre and performance anthropologyStorytelling and heritage traditionsMusic and global cultural circulationFieldwork and ethnographic methods

Publication activity has been modest and fairly steady over the past decade, averaging under one paper per year with a small dip in the early 2020s and occasional recent output.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NSF 1301581Mar 2013 – May 2017 · $24k awarded

    Carolina Dynamics Symposium

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 305 established Arts and Humanities PIs within our index
Citations: 2,474cohort median 598
h-index: 19cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 0.8cohort median 1.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~1 · 100% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 10 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 3 publications3182019: 1 publication192020: 3 publications3202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication222023: 1 publication23242025: 1 publication252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • American Ethnologist×1
  • Anthropology News×1
  • Africa Today×1
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)×1
  • Hespéris, Tamuda×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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