Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (303) 871-3503
Sturm Hall 266
2000 E Asbury Avenue
University of Denver
Denver
CO
80208
United States
ABOUT
Dr. Stanton is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on media and religious identity, and investigates the relationships between new technologies and claims to religious authority, as well as state authority. She has published on government management of religious broadcasts in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s, connecting this to a broader trend of Middle Eastern states controlling religious communities' access to radio and television. Her most recent contemporary work includes an examination of "Islamic emoticons," which appear in online Islamic chat forums and websites and are hotly debated by community members, and a survey of where in the Middle East Muhammad's birthday (the mawlid al-nabi), a sometimes contentious holiday, is celebrated.
Stanton's work on the Middle East includes an examination of the role of the Olympic Games in fostering national and regional identities in Lebanon and Syria, and an analysis of themes found in US-based Syrian aid appeals and in Syrian political cartoons. She has published on the incorporation of sound into histories and other analyses of the Middle East, through a roundtable organized with Carole Woodall (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), and published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Her teaching interests include Qur'anic studies, contemporary fundamentalisms, globalization and its impact on religious identity and practice, gender and Muslim practice, and embodied practice and notions of piety, as well as the Internet and social media's evolving impact in these areas.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Technology
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
Islamic World
Specialties
Hist Of Media And Its Social Effects
Mandate-era Levant
Media & Comtns
Print Cult
Soc Hist
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2007
| History
| Columbia University
MPhil
| 2003
| Hist
| Columbia U
BA
| 1998
| History / Religion
| Williams College
Abstracts
“Palestinians Invade the Lebanon”: The Political Economy of Mandate-Era Tourism
Nationalizing the International: Lebanon and the Olympics, 1947-2008
Shortages and Expenditures: Managing Music and Musicians on the Palestine Broadcasting Service
The BBC and Its Children: Palestinian and Egyptian Broadcasting in the Middle East, 1934-49
Audio Quality and Technological Innovations: Marketing Radio Sets and Gramophones in Lebanon and Palestine, 1930s-1940s
Locating “Palestine’s Summer Residence”: Mandate-era tourism as a site for national identity
Selling the Typewriter in the Arab World
Situating Radio in the Soundscape of Mandate Jerusalem
Messages to Pilgrims: The Advent of Radio Broadcasting at the Hajj
Beyond News and Propaganda: Cultural and Entertainment Programming on the BBC’s Arabic Service
Reading for Sound: Memoirs and Mid-Century Arabic Radio Broadcasting
Erasure as Disinformation: Visual and Textual Messaging in the Syrianpresidency Instagram Account
Broadcasting Women’s Religious and Cultural Modernism in 1940s Palestine
