Atiqa Hachimi is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

She teaches courses on sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and ethnicity, language and power, and qualitative sociolinguistic methodologies. Her primary research deals with the intersections of language, society and identity in contemporary North Africa, with particular attention to Morocco.

She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Becoming Casablancan: Language, Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Morocco". Her recent publications focus on sociolinguistic contact and change in Moroccan cities and on the impact of migration on the evolution of the spoken Arabic in Casablanca. She is also interested in Arabic as a minority language in diaspora.

Credentials

B.A. (Moulay Ismail)
M.A. (Hawaii)
Ph.D. (Hawaii)

Areas of Research

• Arabic Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
• Multilingualism in North Africa
• Language and Gender
• Language and Ethnicity
• Language Attitudes and Ideologies
• Gender and the French Language in North Africa
• Discourse Analysis
• Linguistic Ethnography