List of Contributors

**Alfredo Alietti** is Senior Researcher in Urban Sociology at the University of Ferrara. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Milan. His research interests focus on topics at the national and European levels and include racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, interethnic relations in urban settings, settlement processes of migrants, and ethnic segregation. He is a member of steering committee of international research network called Urban Advanced Marginality. He is also a member of the Esa Research Network 31 on Ethnic Relations, Racism, and Antisemitism, and he serves on the International Advisory Board for the *Theomai Journal*.

**Mahfoud Amara** is Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University. His principal research area is comparative sports policy. He has a specific interest in sport in Arab and Muslim contexts. He has published material on the politics of the Pan-Arab Games, sport in colonial and postcolonial Algeria, sport and media in the Arab world, sport and modernization debate in the Gulf region, and sport development and development through sport in the Arab World. He also has research interests in sport, multiculturalism, and intercultural dialogue. He is the author of *Sport, Politics, and Society in the Arab World* (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).

**Louise Cainkar** is Associate Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. Her research interests include Arab American studies, Muslims in the United States, and migration and immigrant integration. She is the author of *Homeland Insecurity: The Arab and Muslim American Experience after 9/11* (Russell Sage Foundation 2009). She is also the past recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Scholar Award for her work on the reinvigoration of Islamic practices among second generation Muslim Americans.

**Todd Green** is Assistant Professor of Religion at Luther College, where he teaches courses on European and American religious history. He writes and conducts research on Islamophobia and secularization in modern Europe. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in publications such as the *Journal of Church and State*, *Journal of*  *Religion in Europe*, *Religion Compass*, and *CrossCurrents*. He is the author of *Responding to Secularization: The Deaconess Movement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden* (Brill 2011). His most recent book project surveys the history and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia in Europe and North America and will be published by Fortress Press in 2015.

**Yvonne Haddad** is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. She is the past president of the Middle East Studies Association and has served as vice president of the American Academy of Religion, New England Region as well as the vice president of American-Arab University Graduates. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Outstanding Achievement and Distinction in Service to the Profession, Boston University, School of Theology (2007) and Scholar of the Year: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (2002). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her extensive publications include *Becoming American? The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America* (Baylor University Press 2011); *Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today* (Oxford University Press 2006); and *The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection* (Oxford University Press 2002).

**Nazir Harb** is a doctoral student in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University with foci in multimodal interaction and political discourse analysis in the field of linguistics. His dissertation focuses on forms of communicative interaction in the Arab Uprisings, and he conducts research more broadly on identity formation among American Muslims. He completed a master's degree in Arab Studies in Spring 2013 and has a master's degree in International Relations from Princeton University. His publications include articles on Muslims and Islam in America, a blog series on Princeton's *14 Points*, and a co-authored chapter with Yvonne Haddad in *Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture*  (Peter Lang 2013).

**Stephen Jones** is Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry. He completed his PhD on the Islamic tradition in 2010 and subsequently worked at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, as a researcher on the ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society Programme project 'Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance.' He is currently working on a project funded by the Templeton Foundation investigating the social and cultural drivers of contemporary debates about science and religion, based jointly at the University of Coventry and York University (Toronto).

**Baljit Nagra** is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate School of International and Public Affairs at the University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has also previously held a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences of Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research focuses on the social, political, and economic repercussions young Canadian Muslims have experienced since 9/11.

**Dario Padovan** is Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. His research focuses on the history of social sciences, ethnic relations, racism, and social insecurity. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of *Theomai Journal* (Buenos Aires), and *Cosmos and History* (Melbourne). He is also a member of the Esa Research Network 31 on Ethnic Relations, Racism, and Antisemitism.

**Ito Peng** is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology and the School of Public Policy and Governance, and the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy at the University of Toronto. She teaches political sociology and comparative public policy, specializing in family and gender policies and comparative welfare states. She has written extensively on gender, labor market, and political economy of social policy reforms in East Asia. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the SSHRC funded international Partnership Research project called Gender, Migration and the Work of Care*.* The project examines how the reorganization of care influences government policies and global migration of care workers, and how migration in turn shapes public policies and global governance. She is a senior fellow at Massey College and Trinity College, University of Toronto; a senior fellow of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; and an associate researcher with the UNRISD.

**Anne Sofie Roald** is Professor in Religious Studies at Malmö University in Sweden. Her research interests include Islamist movements in the Middle East; Islam and gender in the Middle East and Europe; religious changes in Muslim minority communities; and minority-majority dynamics in Scandinavia. Her current research focuses on New Arab media and social changes. Roald publishes in English, Swedish, and Norwegian. In addition to many peer-reviewed articles, Roald has authored several books, including *Women in Islam: The Western Experience* (Routledge 2001); *New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts* (Brill 2004); and *Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Domination, Selfempowerment, Accommodation* (co-editor) (Brill 2011).

**Ariel Salzmann** teaches Islamic Studies, World History, and Cultural Studies at Queen's University in Canada. As one of the founding members of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Department of New York University, between 1997 and 2003 she promoted multi-regional and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Mediterranean and Asia. Past publications address state formation, fiscal sociology, economic history, identity formation, cartography, multi-religious urbanity, and Catholic-Muslim relations. The present study on the Mediterranean 'galley complex' forms part of a larger, comparative project on the historical sociology of religious and ethnic exclusion.

**Jennifer Selby** is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has published articles in *Culture and Religion* and in *Studies in Religion*. She is the author of *Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb* (Palgrave MacMillan 2012) and the co-editor (with Anna Korteweg) of *Debating Sharia* (University of Toronto Press 2012).

**Meena Sharify-Funk** is an Associate Professor for the Religion and Culture Department at Wilfrid Laurier University who specializes in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary Muslim thought and identity. Sharify-Funk has written and presented a number of articles and papers on women and Islam, Islamic hermeneutics, and the role of cultural and religious factors in peacemaking. Her current book analyzes the impact of controversial issues that are shaping contemporary Muslim women in North America. Sharify-Funk's most recent book, *Encountering the Transnational: Women, Islam, and the Politics of Interpretation*, focused on the impact of transnational networking on Muslim women's identity, thought, and activism. She also has co-edited two books: *Cultural Diversity and Islam* (University Press of America 2003) and *Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static* (Routledge 2006) and is currently a Series Editor for the *Theology and Philosophy Series* at Pickering and Chatto Publishers.

**David Shefferman** is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Manhattan College. His research explores widely the twentieth- and twenty-first century discourses about religion and includes studies of popular depictions of Afro-Cuban traditions in film, literature, music, news, and digital formats as well as analysis of media uses among practitioners. He is the editor, with Claudia Setzer, of *The Bible and American Culture: A Sourcebook* (Routledge 2011) as well as the author of a range of essays on religious tourism and public spectacle in the Caribbean, Spain, and the United States.

**Eren Tatari** is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rollins College. Her research and teaching interests include ethnic and religious minorities in the US and Western Europe and women in Islam. Her latest book is titled *Surrendering to God: Understanding Islam in the Modern Age* (Tughra Books 2012).

**Ahmet Yükleyen** is Croft Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. He studied international relations at Bilkent University in Turkey and completed his MA degree at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Boston University in 2007. He is the author of *Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands* (Syracuse University Press 2012). He was a senior resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for 2011-12. He served as a visiting scholar at Sabanci University's Conflict Analysis and Resolution program for 2013-14 with the support of TUBITAK.
