Amina Tawasil
Program: Anthropology and EducationDegree: Ph.D. candidate
Previous Graduate Education: Stanford University
Research Interests: Iranian seminaries for women, political socialization, labor migration, state violence, refugee studies, Islamic schools, Islamic education, gender in liberation theology, role of women in religious education, indigenous movements, human/sex trafficking
Geographical Interests: Middle East, Southeast Asia
Publications:
Tawasil, A. January 1, 2013. “On the Edge of Protest in Tehran: Shifting, Discontinuing Boundaries.” Anthropology News, Breaking Boundaries series, 2013.
Tawasil, A. (collaborator), Still Waiting: Stories, Struggles, and Strength from RMSC, Student Press Initiatives, Teachers College, Columbia University
Tawasil, A. (ed.), This is Where I Need to Be: Oral Histories of Muslim Youth in NYC, Student Press Initiatives, Teachers College, Columbia University
Presentations:
Tawasil, A. “'This Is the Best Place In Tehran': An Ethnographic Metanarrative Tracing the Remaking and Expansion of the Women's Houzeh Elmieh (Seminaries) of Post-Revolution Iran”. Paper presented at the Annual American Anthropological Association 111th Meeting 2012, San Francisco, CA
Tawasil, A. "The Unpacking of Conflict" as Necessity via the Art of Argumentation among the Houzevi Women in Tehran. Paper presented at the 2012 Conflict Studies Conference, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Tawasil, A. “Imam Khomeini Advised Us to Learn English”: The Place of English between Researcher and the Practice of Seminarian Women in Tehran. Paper presented at the Southwestern Anthropological Association Meeting 2012, Chico, CA
Tawasil, A. Mobaheseh: The Art of Argumentation in the Women’s Seminaries in Iran. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting 2009, Philadelphia, PA
Tawasil, A. A Case Study of Learners in the Houzeh Elmieh for Women in Iran. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia 2009, PA
Tawasil, A. The Ijazah of Iranian Muslim Women: The Reproduction of Shia' Islamic Knowledge in Iran. Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Education Week 2009, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Tawasil, A. Women in the Ijazah Tradition: The Reproduction of Shia' Islamic Knowledge in Iran. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting 2008, San Francisco, CA
Tawasil, A. Civic Education During Wartime: A Comparative Case Study of Two Islamic School Teachers after September 11. Paper presented at:
- 29th Annual Ethnography of Education Research Conference 2008, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,PA
- 2008 Harvard Graduate School of Education Graduate Student Conference, Cambridge, MA
Tawasil, A. 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 2007, Washington,D.C.
Tawasil, A. 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 2007, Rosemont, IL
Grants/Fellowships
American Association of University Women 2012
Earth Institute Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity 2011
Middle East Institute, Columbia University 2011
Zankel Urban Fellowship 2008
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Honorable Mention 2008
Stanford University Ettinger Foundation Fellowship 2007
Business & Professional Women's Foundation 2006
Goetz Higher Education Scholarship 2006