Dina Dahbany Miraglia

Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (born 1938, New York City) is an American-born Yemeni linguistic anthropologist. She is an alumnus of a girls-only Orthodox Ashkenazi yeshiva, Hunter College, and Columbia University, earning a Ph.D. (anthropology, 1983). Her work has focused on Yemenite Jews and English as a Second Language. Dahbany-Miraglia served as a professor at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, until she retired. She is known as a cross-disciplinarian because of her musical, modern dance, and performance training.