Shabana Mir

co-author of A companion to the Anthology of Education

February 4, 2012

Shabana Mir is Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University where she teaches graduate courses in Qualitative Research Methods and the Social Foundations of Education. Shabana has her PhD in Education Policy Studies and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington, and her award-winning doctoral dissertation, Constructing Third Spaces: American Muslim Undergraduate Women's Hybrid Identity Construction, was based on ethnographic research that examined American Muslim undergraduate women's religious, ethnic, gender and civic identities in the context of youth and leisure culture on university campuses. She has contributed chapters to Educating the Muslims of America, Comparative Education: the Dialectic of the Global and the Local, Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality andMuslim Voices in School, and has published in Discourse, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Journal of Religion, Anthropology News, Chronicle of Higher Education, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, the Encyclopedia of Islam in North America, The Washington Post Newsweek, Islamic Studies, Q-News, and on the web. She is an active member of the Council on Anthropology and Education in the American Anthropological Association, the Comparative and International Education Society, and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. She is a columnist for Religion Dispatches, and is an international public speaker on issues of religion, gender, and education.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2012-honorees/shabana-mir

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