Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Fawzia Ahmad was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to the United States to complete her academic work. Currently, she is a Senior Instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her interdisciplinary teaching and research interests include francophone, postcolonial, and feminist literatures and theories, and Islamic trends in a global context. She has published articles on inter-cultural perspectives and currently teaches “Women in Islam” and “France and the Muslim World” courses.
Carol S. Anderson is chair of the Department of Religion at Kalamazoo College. Her area of research is Buddhism in South Asia and feminist approaches to the history of religions. She is author of Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravāda Buddhist Canon (1999), and articles on religion in South Asia, including contributions to Karen Pechilis’s edited volume The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States (2004) and Constituting Communities: Theravāda Buddhism and Religious Communities of South and Southeast Asia (2003). She was cochair of the Lesbian-Feminist Issues in Religion group of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and has served on the AAR Board. Anderson’s most recent project is a volume in honor of W. S. Karunatillake, Embedded Languages: Studies in the Religion, Culture, and History of Sri Lanka (2008), coedited with Suzanne Mrozik, W. M. Wijeratne, and R. M. W. Rajapakse.
María Pilar Aquino is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. She received her doctoral degree from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain (1991), and is a founding member of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS), of which she was also the first woman president. Her recent publications include Feminist Intercultural Theology: Latina Explorations for a Just World, coedited with Maria José Rosado-Nunes (2007).
Margot Badran is a scholar specializing in the study of women and gender in Muslim societies. She is a Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. She was recently Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Religion Department and Preceptor at [End Page 135] the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. She has lectured widely in academic and popular forums in the United States as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia and consulted with multilateral and bilateral organizations on issues of women and gender in Muslim societies. Among her books are Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (1995; published in Arabic in 2000 as Raidat al-Harakat al-Niswiyya al-Misriyya wa al-Islam wa al-Watan), Feminism beyond East and West: New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam (2006), and Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences (2008).
Carla Bellamy received a PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Religion. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the program in Religion and Culture at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her major areas of interest include the construction of religious identity in India, religion and healing, and religion and the body.
Katie Geneva Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary-PSCE in Richmond, Virginia, is author of Teaching Preaching (2002), Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community (1995), and Black Womanist Ethics (1988).
Anna Catone’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Caketrain, The Cortland Review, Lumina, Post Road, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University. She lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches and is associate editor of Coal Hill Review, published by Autumn House Press.
miriam cooke is Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at Duke University and past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, and Indonesia. Her writings have focused on the intersections of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism. Most recently, she has become interested in Arab cultural...
