Doctoral Students
Amina Tawasil
Program: Anthropology and Education
Degree: Ph.D.
Previous Graduate Education: Stanford University
Research Interests: political
socialization, labor migration, state violence, refugee studies, Islamic
schools, Islamic education, gender in liberation theology, role of women in
production of religious knowledge, indigenous movements, human/sex trafficking
Geographical Interests: Middle
East, Southeast Asia
Publications:Editor,
2009 "Still Waiting: Stories, Struggle and Strength from RMSC". New York: Student Press
Initiatives
Editor, 2008 "This is Where I Need To Be: Oral Histories of Muslim Youth
in NYC". New York:
Student Press Initiatives
Presentations:A Case Study of Learners in the Houzeh Elmieh for
Women in Iran.
Paper to be presented at the
American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Women in the Ijazah
Tradition: The Reproduction of Shia' Islamic Knowledge in Iran.
Paper presented at
the American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
The Ijazah of Iranian Muslim Women: The Reproduction of Shia' Islamic Knowledge
in Iran. Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Education Week, Teachers
College, Columbia University,
New York, NY.
Civic Education During Wartime: A Comparative Case Study of Two Islamic School
Teachers after September 11. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Ethnography of
Education Research Conference, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA and at
the 2008 Harvard Graduate School of Education Graduate Student Conference, Cambridge, MA.
Civic Education
During Wartime: A Comparative Case Study of Two Islamic School Teachers after
September 11. Poster presented at the American Anthropological Association
106th Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C.
The Role of Theoretical Frameworks in Building an Expanded Civic Education
Curriculum for Islamic Schools. Paper presented at the Islamic Society of North
America 8th Annual Education Forum, Rosemont,
IL
.
