Hsain Ilahiane

Professor of Practice

Dr. Hsain Ilahiane is a professor in both the W.A. Franke Honors College and The College of Social and Behaviorial Sciences. Hsain is a Cultural Anthropologist whose areas of theoretical interest include development, poverty, globalization, applied anthropology, economic anthropology, and political ecology. His most recent book is The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Economic and Cultural Transformations (Lexington Books, 2022), and he joined the Franke Honors College in 2023 after serving as the department head of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.