Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
150 Roydon
New Haven
CT
06511
United States
ABOUT
Historical anthropologist Zareena Grewal is an Associate Professor of American Studies, Middle East Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her award-winning book, Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU 2013), is a historical ethnography of transnational Muslim intellectual networks that link US mosques to Islamic movements in post-colonial Middle East through debates about the reform of Islam, based on fieldwork in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the social life of the Quran as a racialized text-object at the center of the culture wars in the US titled "Is the Quran a Good Book?" She has also published articles and policy papers on religion, politics, and networks of care among Middle Eastern refugee population in the US and Greece. She is also a documentary filmmaker, her first film "By the Dawn's Early Light" follows the life of former NBA guard Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, considered the "Kaepernick of the nineties." She is currently working on a documentary film about the history of Islam in the US. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright, Wenner Gren, and Luce Foundations.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
History Of Religion
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Specialties
Islam In The US
Race & Cult Stds
Rel Educ In The ME
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Anthro & Hist
| University of Michigan
Abstracts
American Tolerance-Talk and its Muslim Limits
