Mariam Dahbi Zniber, PhD

I study how to create knowledge-rich spaces and conversations in multilingual contexts.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Institut des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, trained at Harvard (EdM, 2015; PhD, 2022). I work this question as an empirical learning scientist, as a theorist of multilingual competence developing the construct of registerial multilingualism, and as a songwriter who studies what music and language share in the mind — three registers of one inquiry, anchored in multilingual early childhood and teacher education in Morocco.

I wrote songs for voice and guitar between 2015 and 2020. Cordelia was the project of arranging them with professional musicians, and the album How it Began came out of that work in 2021.