ABOUT ME: I am a Lecturer at Coastal Carolina University. I recieved a Ph.D. in Religion at the University of Florida in 2011. I earned an undergraduate degree in religious studies with minors in economics and environmental studies from Colgate University and a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University with a focus on Islamic studies. The recipient of several Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Modern Standard Arabic, my research interests include American Islam and Muslims and the relations between Muslims' religious and environmental ideas and practices. I have presented research on American Muslims at national and international conferences, such as the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting and Annual International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. My publications include "What Traditions are Represented in Religion and Ecology? A Prespective from an American Scholar of Islam," "Case Study: Images of 'Land' among Islamic Farmers in the U.S.," and "Representin' Women: Signification of Women's Bodies in Muslim Hip-Hop." My dissertation focused on farming among American Muslim communities.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Islam, American Islam; Religion and Nature; Method and Theory in Religious Studies
CONTACT ME:
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