Biography:Jennifer Selby

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Short description: Canadian scholar
Jennifer Selby
EducationHarvard University (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
McMaster University (PhD)
Queen's University (MA)
University of Winnipeg (BA)
AwardsFulbright Fellowship
Scientific career
Fieldssecular politics, women in Islam, gender studies, religious law
InstitutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
ThesisThe Shifting Boundaries of Gender Politics and Laicite: An Ethnography of First-generation Muslim Maghrebian Women in a Parisian banlieue (2007)
Doctoral advisorEllen Badone
Websitehttps://www.mun.ca/relstudies/people/jselby.php

Jennifer A. Selby is a Canadian scholar and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is known for her research on secularism, women in Islam, gender studies and religious law.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Selby won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 and 2016.[7]

Books

  • Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2012
  • Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics and Family Law Arbitration, co-edited with Anna C. Korteweg, University of Toronto Press, 2012
  • Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians, with Amelie Barras and Lori G. Beaman, UBC Press, 2019

References

  1. Winter, Bronwyn (1 March 2014). "Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb" (in en). Journal of Church and State 56 (1): 174–176. doi:10.1093/jcs/cst114. ISSN 0021-969X. 
  2. Johnson, Michelle C. (2013). "Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb by Jennifer A. Selby" (in en). American Ethnologist 40 (1): 234–236. doi:10.1111/amet.12015_17. ISSN 1548-1425. 
  3. Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela (1 May 2014). "Review of Jennifer Selby, Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb" (in en). Contemporary Islam 8 (2): 177–180. doi:10.1007/s11562-012-0233-8. ISSN 1872-0226. 
  4. Kolshus, Thorgeir; Bangstad, Sindre; Bielo, James S.; Gobin, Emma; Wesser, Grit; Macfarlane, Sibyl; Hewlett, Christopher; Kaell, Hillary et al. (1 September 2014). "Book Reviews". Religion and Society 5 (1): 261–281. doi:10.3167/arrs.2014.050116. ISSN 2150-9298. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/religion-and-society/5/1/air-rs050116.xml?rskey=GPTWOT&result=1. Retrieved 15 December 2018. 
  5. Dean, Jason (May 2013). "Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration". Journal of Contemporary Religion 28 (2): 335–336. doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.783328. 
  6. Baines, Beverley (23 October 2014). "Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration ed. by Anna C. Korteweg and Jennifer A. Selby (review)" (in en). University of Toronto Quarterly 83 (2): 525–527. ISSN 1712-5278. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/557196. Retrieved 15 December 2018. 
  7. "The Community Leadership Program" (in en). http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/enrichment/clp/recent-grantees. Retrieved 15 December 2018. 

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