Shabana Mir, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
213 Willard Hall
213 Willard Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
(405) 744-2016
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Academic Degrees
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Indiana University, Bloomington; Education Policy Studies
Cambridge University, UK; School Development
Punjab University; English Literature
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Courses Taught
Qualitative Research I
Introduction to Qualitative Research
Comparative Education (Spring '10)
Publications
Book Chapters:
"I didn't want to have that outcast belief about alcohol:" Muslim Women Encounter Drinking Cultures on Campus." Educating the Muslims of America, Y. Haddad and Jane Smith, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009).
"Identity Jihads: Muslim youth and spirituality." (Co-authored with Marcia Hermansen). Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions, K. M. Yust et al, eds., pp. 423 - 436. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.(2007)
Co-authored book chapter by R. Christina with G. Mehran and Shabana Mir. "Education in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities." Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, R. F. Arnove and C. A. Torres, eds., pp. 357 - 383. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. (1999, 2003, 2007).
Book Reviews:
Book review of Concentric Circles: Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Learning. Islamic Studies, Winter 2007, 46(4), pp 574 - 576.
Book review of All-American Yemeni Girls. Journal of Religion, July 2007, 87(3), pp. 469 - 470.
Book review of The Muslim Veil in North America in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 21 (4), Fall 2004, pp. 110 - 112.
Book review of Windows of Faith. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 18(4), 2000, pp. 195 - 199.
Articles:
"'Where you stand on dating defines you:' American Muslim Women Students and Cross-Gender Interaction on Campus." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 24(3), Summer 2007, pp. 69 - 91.
"American Muslim Women on Campus" in Anthropology News, May 2007, pp. 16 - 17.
"Normal, but not too college-like: American Muslim women students' interactions with men." Anthropology and Education Quarterly, forthcoming in September 2009.
Forthcoming Publications
Book:
Shabana Mir (2010) Stretching the Ordinary: American Muslim Women on Campus. University of North Carolina Press. (Advance contract).
Book Chapters:
"Diversity, self, faith and friends: Muslim undergraduates on campus." Muslim Voices in School: Narratives of Identity and Pluralism, Ozlem Sensoy and Christopher Stonebanks, eds. Sense Publishers (2009).
Presentations
Invited roundtable keynote speaker, Association of Muslim Social Scientists (Canada) annual conference (2007)
Scholar invited under Distinguished Scholars Program; lectured on gender, religion and research methodology in Islamabad, Pakistan (2007)
Invited speaker at College of William and Mary: "The gender gap in Islamic religious scholarship" (2007)
Invited speaker at Islamic Law in the West Conference by the Washington College of Law Islamic Legal Forum, American University: "Islamic law and gender justice" (2007)
Invited speaker at University of Georgia Women's Studies Institute: "Religion, clothing and college culture" (2007)
Retreat Leader, AMILA Annual Ramadan Retreat (2006)
Invited presenter at Harvard's Pluralism Project conference: "American Muslim Women University Students: The Significance of Clothing." (2004)
"I didn't want to have that outcast belief about alcohol: American Muslim women on campus." Conference guest speaker and Fellow, Institute for Social Policy Understanding (2004)
"Teachers' Role in Educational Reform" at Institute of Leadership & Management and The Punjab School, Lahore, Pakistan, Leader of teachers' workshop (2000)
Guest speaker: College of William & Mary (2007, 2006), Northwestern University (1999), Indiana University (1998), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998, 1999, 2001), Birmingham University (1994), Cambridge University (1994)
Professional Activities
Manuscript reviewer, American Anthropological Association annual conferences (2007 to date)
Manuscript reviewer, Intercultural Imaginaries (2007)
Peer reviewer, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (2002-04, 2008-09)
Peer reviewer, Islamic Studies (2007)
Member, Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Candidate Review Committee (2004)
Bibliographer for Multicultural Teacher Education Pedagogy Project, AERA (2004)
Curriculum design, Comparative Education PhD curriculum, Walden University (1997)
Awards
"Outstanding Dissertation Award" from Council on Anthropology and Education (American Anthropological Association) (2006)
Languages
Bilingual: Urdu and English
Punjabi
Intermediate skills in Arabic and Farsi
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