Participant Info
- First Name
- Enaya
- Last Name
- Othman
- Country
- United States
- State
- WI Wisconsin
- enaya.othman@mu.edu
- Affiliation
- Marquette University
- Website URL
- http://www.marquette.edu/languages-literatures-cultures/Othman.shtml
- Keywords
- Muslim women, feminism, immigration, cultural studies, colonialism
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Enaya Othman is Assistant Professor at Marquette University. She is the founder of Arab and Muslim Women’s Research and Resource Institute, AMWRRI. She serves as the President of AMWRRI Board of Directors. Her research interest focuses on Arab and Muslim feminism, immigration, cultural encounter in colonial and diaspora contexts.
- Recent Publications
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters Between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s-1940s, September 2016 (Lexington, Rowman and Littlefield Press).
“Muslim Women in the Diaspora: Shaping Lives and Negotiating Their Marriages” in World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora, edited by Harjinder Singh Majhail and Sinan Dogan. 111-123. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“Deconstructing the Dogma of Domesticity: Quaker Education and Nationalism in British Mandate Palestine,” The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, John Hopkins University Press, April 2018
“Strategies of Recognition’ and Palestinian Immigrant Women’s Cultural Dress:Forging Communities and Negotiating Power Relations.” Journal of New Middle East Studies, 5 (2015)
“Building a community Among Early Arab Immigrants in Milwaukee, 1890s-1960s,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol., 96, No. 4, (Summer, 2013)
“Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women’s Two Palestinian Encounters,” Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 50 (Summer 2012)
- Media Coverage
- http://archive.jsonline.com/news/religion/milwaukee-public-museum-show-explores-relationship-between-muslim-clothing-identity-b99269574z1-260618551.html/
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Middle East, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Disability, Family, Gender, Material Culture, Religion, Women
