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  • Contributors

Evelyn Alsultany

Evelyn Alsultany is an assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her recent publications include "The Primetime Plight of Arab-Muslim-Americans After 9/11: Configurations of Race and Nation in TV Dramas," in Arab American Identities Before and After September 11th (2007) and "From Ambiguity to Abjection: Iraqi-Americans Negotiating Race in the United States," in The Arab Diaspora: Voices of an Anguished Scream (2006). She is the co-editor (with Nadine Naber and Rabab Abdulhadi) of a special issue of the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies on Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives (Spring 2005). She is currently working on a co-edited book project (with Ella Shohat) on the cultural politics of the Middle East in the Americas. She is also working on her book manuscript, tentatively entitled, The Changing Profile of Race in the United States: Representing Arab and Muslim Americans in the U.S. Mainstream Media Post-9/11.

Edward E. Curtis IV

Edward E. Curtis IV is Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is the author of Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 (UNC Press, 2006) and editor of the Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (Columbia University Press, 2008). Curtis is currently at work on a new synthesis of Muslim history in the United States (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Jodi Eichler-Levine

Jodi Eichler-Levine is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, where she teaches courses in Jewish Studies and Women's Studies. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Religion at Columbia University. Her current project is on the uses of the past and the telling of violence in religious children's literature; her research and teaching interests also include American Jewish life; religion and popular culture; the overlapping constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, and religion; and biblical afterlives in contemporary America. [End Page 1043]

Tanya Erzen

Tanya Erzen is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, where she teaches courses in religious studies and American studies. She is the author of Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (2006), which received the Ruth Benedict Prize and co-editor of Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (2001). Erzen is currently working on a book about faith-based prisons entitled Bodies and Souls: Evangelicalism and the Faith-based Politics of Imprisonment.

R. Marie Griffith

R. Marie Griffith is a professor in the Department of Religion and a faculty member in the American Studies and Gender Studies interdepartmental programs at Princeton University. Her research and teaching focus on gender, embodiment, and sexuality in twentieth-century U.S. religion. Her books include God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission (1997); Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (2004); Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, co-edited with Barbara Savage (2006); and American Religions: A Documentary History (2008). She is now writing a book that analyzes America's long religious and political battles over the linked issues of sex education, abortion, birth control, pornography, homosexuality, marriage, and abstinence.

Clarence E. Hardy III

Clarence Hardy is an assistant professor in the Religion Department at Dartmouth College. He teaches courses in American religious culture and contemporary Christian thought with a special focus on twentieth century black religious culture in the United States. He is the author of James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture and has written pieces for the Journal of Religion and Christianity & Crisis. He is currently at work on a book titled, We Grappled for the Mysteries: Black God-Talk in Modern America. It will span the 1920s through the Civil Rights period and consider how black descriptions of the divine have evolved in the modern period.

Rosemary R. Hicks

Rosemary R. Hicks is a doctoral candidate in the Columbia University Religion Department focusing on Islam in the United States and intellectual histories of...

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