Presidents Hall 209
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
AL
35487
United States
ABOUT
Edith Szanto is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. She previously taught at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Dr. Szanto received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto in 2012. She has extensively published on Islam, particularly Twelver Shi'ism, in Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as issues relating to women and other minorities such as the Zoroastrians in the region. Dr. Szanto is currently the President of the Syrian Studies Association.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Studies
Kurdish
Kurdish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Pedagogy
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iraq
Islamic World
Kurdistan
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Twelver Shi'ism
Shrine Visitation
Sufism
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (elementary)
German (native)
Hungarian (advanced)
English (native)
Hindi (elementary)
Kurdish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Religious Studies
| University of Toronto
