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Assistant Professor
of Religion
Address:
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
430 Cosby
350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314
Phone: 404-270-5524
Fax: 404-270-5523
E-mail:
jkarim@spelman.edu |
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Courses:
REL 222 Introduction to the Study of Islam
REL 223 Women and Islam
REL 323 Race and American Islam
REL 224 Introduction to the Qur’an
Degree:
Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. Duke University
B.S.E. Duke University
Current Research:
Jamillah Karim’s research interests include Islam and Muslims in the United States (African American, South Asian and Arab), Islamic Feminism, Race and Ethnicity, and Immigration and Transnational Identity. She is currently completing a manuscript on relations between African American and immigrant Muslims. She investigates what it means to negotiate Islamic ideals of community (ummah) against America’s race and class hierarchies. Karim also researches and writes on how American Muslim women navigate gendered mosque space. Her most recent research project investigates civic engagement among second-generation American Muslims.
Recent Awards:
2007
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College
2005
Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
2005
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College
Recent Publications:
“Ethnic Borders in American Muslim Communities,” in Crossing Borders/Constructing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Migrant Experience, ed. Caroline Brettell. Lexington Books, 2007.
“Islam for the People: Muslim Men’s Voices on Race and Ethnicity in the American Ummah.” In Voices of Islam. Vol. 5, Voices of Change, eds.Vincent Cornell and Omid Safi. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007.
“Through Sunni Women’s Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islam.” Souls Journal 8, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 19-30.
“To Be Black, Female, and Muslim: A Candid Conversation about Race in the American Ummah .” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 26, no. 2 (August 2006): 225-233.
“Between Immigrant Islam and Black Liberation: Young Muslims Inherit Global Muslim and African American Legacies.” The Muslim World 95, no. 4 (October 2005): 497-513.
“Voices of Faith, Faces of Beauty: Connecting American Muslim Women through Azizah Magazine.” In Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, ed. miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence, 169-188. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
