Assistant Professor, Departments of American Studies and Religious Studies, Yale University
Zareena Grewal, Assistant Professor in the departments of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale, is a historical anthropologist whose research focuses on Islam in the US. Her research interests include race, trans-nationalism, experimental ethnography, film, religion, and identity politics across the wide spectrum of Muslim American communities. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Egypt (2002-3) and received the Fulbright's prestigious Islamic Civilization Grant. She is currently developing a book manuscript based on her dissertation research, tentatively titled Destination, Tradition: The Crisis of Islam in the US, which explores the transnational dimensions of the authority crisis in American mosques. She recently published an article in Ethnic and Racial Studies titled "Marriage in Color: Race, Religion, and Spouse Selection in Four American Mosques" which examines the generational differences in racial and gender ideologies among Arab and South Asian immigrants. She is also co-editor of a forthcoming volume titled Treating Muslims: An Interdisciplinary Primer on Health which brings together the perspectives of anthropologists, historians, ethicists, and health practitioners on cultural encounters in healthcare settings. She also directed and produced the documentary By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam which examines the scrutiny of Muslim American patriotism. (The film was recently featured on the Documentary Channel). She is also the director of the Center of American Muslim Studies at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. At Yale, she teaches courses on Islam in America, US policy in the Middle East, ethnographic film, and religion and media.
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