Educational Background

• BA, Anthropology, UCLA, 1978
• MA, Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, 1999
• PhD, Anthropology, Columbia University (Teachers College), 2004

Scholarly Interests
Agency and religiosity in education; religious education of Muslim diaspora communities in the US; issues of identity and schooling among Muslim minority children in the US; religious and secular education in the Middle East; education and development in the Muslim world