Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop, June 20-25, 2016

I’ll be heading to Crawfordsville, IN this June for the final week of the Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities. Wabash is one of the best learning experiences I’ve had as a professor and I would highly recommend it for any early career scholars. Check it out here. Here is…

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, June 2-5, 2016

Heading off to the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. I am excited to be heading back to the East-West Center, next to the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. I first visited the EWC in 2011 for a NEH Summer Institute hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program, called the Dynamics of Cultural Unity and…

Hollywood reworks Muslim stereotypes – Interview on Religion News Service

Reporter Julie Poucher Harbin was kind to ask me about my thoughts on the representation of Muslims in Television and Film for her latest piece at Religion News Service. I was in the midst of teaching my Islam in Film course and working on the outline for a current book project, The Cinematic Lives of Muslims. Here are the relevant quotes:   Hollywood reworks Muslim…