Kelly Pemberton, PhD
Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies
Department of Religion | Women's Studies Program
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Islam, Gender, Sufism, Civil Society
- Islam in South Asia and the Middle East
- Sufism in South Asia
- Women and Islam
- Questions of Religius Authority
- Islam and Civil Society in the Middle East and South Asia
- Galeno-Islamic medicine
Publications
- Sufis and Social Activism: a Chishti Response to Communal Strife in India Today. In "In Search of South Asian Sufis, eds. Clinton Bennett & Charles Ramsey. Continuum Books, 2012
- Reclaiming Muslim Space in 21st-Century Turkey: Popular Didactic Writing for Women Near East Quarterly (August 2011)
- Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in the Indian Subcontinent. University of South Carolina Press, 2010
- Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (co-edited with Michael Nijhawan, York University, Toronto) Routledge 2009
- An Islamic Discursive Tradition on Reform as Seen in the Writing of Deoband's Maulana Taqi 'Usmani Muslim World vol. 99, no. 3 (July 2009)
- Islamic Medicine, Plural Medicine: Contemporary Perspectives on South Asia and the Middle East (in progress)
Classes
Undergraduate
- Islam
- Women in Islam
- Women in Islam (summer online) (sample syllabus)
- Islam and Hinduism in South Asia
- Women in Western Religion
- Gender,Sainthood,and Piety in Islam
- Introduction to Women's Studies
- Introduction to the Quran
- Topics in the Qur'an
Graduate
- Islamic Historiographies (sample syllabus)
- Gender and Islamic Activism
- Global Islamic Feminisms
- Global Religious Feminisms
Contact
Kelly Pemberton, PhD
Dept. of Religion
2106 21st St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-6363
kpembert@email.gwu.edu
Department of Religion | Columbian College of Arts and Sciences | The George Washington University Women's Studies Program | Columbian College of Arts and Sciences | The George Washington University