9/11 and Its Impact on Religious Studies

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Panelists

Zareena Grewal, PhD, is Associate Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, and Religious Studies at Yale University. Grewal is a historical anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker whose research focuses on race, gender, religion, nationalism, and transnationalism across a wide spectrum of American Muslim communities. Her first book, Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU 2013), is an ethnography of transnational Muslim networks that link US mosques to Islamic movements in the post-colonial Middle East through debates about the reform of Islam. Her first film, By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam (Cinema Guild 2004), examines the racialization of Islam and the scrutiny of American Muslims’ patriotism long before September 11, 2001.

R. Scott Hanson, PhD, is the senior scholar in Urban History and Material Culture in the Department of History and Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships at Drexel. He holds a PhD in History of Culture from the University of Chicago and specializes in American urban history, immigration and ethnic history, religion, political rhetoric, oral history, ethnography, folklore (including the history of music and foodways), and public history more generally. In addition to teaching, he also works with the team of the Lenfest Center in the Atwater Kent Collection of the former Philadelphia History Museum.

Tiffany Puett, PhD, is a scholar of American religions, a community educator, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity and Civic Life, a non-profit based in Austin, TX. At IDCL, she leads community-based research and public scholarship that explore the religious and cultural diversity of Texas as well as issues of identity, equity, belonging, and democracy-building. She also teaches classes on religious diversity and politics in the Department of Religious Studies and the Honors Program at St. Edward’s University. She holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Waterloo and a master’s degree in Ethics from Boston University.

Moderator

Julie Byrne is The Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor of Religion at Hofstra University. Her current book project, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award, focuses on tristate families affected by 9/11 and its aftermath. In addition to Catholic Studies, Byrne writes and teaches about topics in comparative religions of the Americas, focusing on contemporary communities and connectivity to current events.