Stephanie V. Love

Dr. Stephanie V. Love is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from CUNY (2022) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis. Her research focuses on postcolonial Algeria, exploring how violent histories are reanimated through urban speech, material culture, and memory practices. Her book project, Streets of Grievance, examines how Algerians navigate colonial and postcolonial traumas through everyday poetics and spatial practices. She is also committed to pedagogical innovation, coordinating initiatives like the STEM Pedagogy Institute and the Heritage Arabic eBook project at CUNY.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology (Linguistic and Cultural), The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2022

Research Interests: Dr. Love investigates urban anthropology, postcolonialism, semiotics, and spatiotemporal imaginaries. Her work interrogates the 'afterlives' of colonialism via anticolonial martyrs, abandoned cemeteries, and contested placenames. She analyzes how marginalized groups use language and material culture to reimagine collective futures across political divides. Recent projects include studies of pandemic pedagogy and transnational migrant experiences.

Grants & Initiatives:

• Coordinated CUNY’s STEM Pedagogy Institute
• Carnegie Educational Technology Fellowship participant
• Center for Integrated Language Communities’ Heritage Arabic eBook project

Labs/Teams: Currently affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Anthropology, focusing on Mediterranean and North African studies.