Contributors
- Contributors
Azza Basarudin received her doctorate in women’s studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research centers on gender, sexuality, women’s activism, and cultural memory in communities of Muslims in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Basarudin has held fellowships and visiting scholar positions at Harvard University, Syracuse University, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and the American University of Cairo. She has received awards from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation, among others. Her writings have appeared in A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Amina Wadud, Women and Islam, Al-Raida: Journal of the Institute of Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Twentieth-Century Arab Writers, and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. She is currently a Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women completing a book manuscript on Islam and feminist activism in Malaysia.
Anita Fábos is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) at Clark University. Fábos has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University and has conducted research and outreach among refugees and other forced migrants in urban settings in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. As the Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo, and later Programme Coordinator for the graduate program in Refugee Studies at the University of East London, Fábos has been involved in developing integrated teaching, [End Page 164] research, and outreach programs that have incorporated refugee and forced migrant perspectives into collaborative work with scholars, practitioners, refugee organizations, policymakers, and international organizations. Fábos is currently conducting ethnographic research on the transnational strategies of women and men in the Muslim Arab Sudanese diaspora to promote “family values” and negotiate a Sudanese diasporic identity, particularly in the context of global Islam.
Ellen Gruenbaum is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University since 2008. She studied anthropology at Stanford University (A.B.) and at the University of Connecticut (M.A., Ph.D.). Early in her career, she spent five years in Sudan, where she first met and became friends with Sondra Hale in 1974, during a year they each lived in Khartoum. She is a medical anthropologist known especially for her long-term cultural anthropology research on female genital cutting (FGC) and other health issues in Sudan. She has been a research and evaluation consultant on FGC and abandonment programs for UNICEF and other organizations, especially in Sudan and Sierra Leone. She is the author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (University of Pennsylvania Press). Currently she is on the steering committee of the interdisciplinary International Breast Cancer and Nutrition Project based at Purdue.
Emily Haddad spends her time between Seattle, Washington, and Recife, Brazil. Her background and research focus on critical development studies, water resource management, and alternative development systems specifically in Brazil. In her spare time (and in line with antibinary paradigms) she works in the legal risk management field auditing and assessing insurance endorsements for large construction firms.
Sherine Hafez is Associate Professor of the Departments of Women’s Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her interests focus on Islamic movements and women’s studies in Arab and Middle Eastern cultures. Hafez’s most recent book, An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion And Secularism In Women’s Islamic Movements (New York University Press, 2011), challenges binary representations of women’s subjectivities in Islamic movements as secular [End Page 165] /religious, liberal/non liberal, and rational/irrational by relating the interplay between the complex debates of modernity and postcoloniality to the particular historicity of Islam and secularism. Hafez is also the author of The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt (2003), which questions the applicability of empowerment as defined by Western liberal discourses to Islamic women’s activism. She is the coeditor of State of the Art: The Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Khanum Shaikh received her doctorate in Women’s/Gender...
