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Mailing Address Social Science and Human Services Ramapo College 505 Ramapo Valley Road Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 USA

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Countries of Specialization Senegal

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Research Interests Muslim women, labor migration

Teaching Interests Race relations, religion, gender

Publications * 2013. "Dakar's Sunnite women: the dialectic of submission and defiance in a globalizing city," in ed. Mamadou Diouf, Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal. New York: Columbia University Press. 2012. "'Our parents and religion': challenges to Senegalese social hierarchies by young Islamist women," in ed. Marie-Nathalie Le Blanc and Muriel Gomez-Perez, L'Afrique des générations : entre tensions et négociations Paris : Karthala. 2009. "Young Sunnite women and economic liberalization in Dakar, Senegal: self, solidarity, and growing up with global capitalism." Special issue of Afrique contemporaine edited by Leonardo Villaln and Jean-Louis Triaud. 2009. "Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite women negotiate power and belief in orthodox Islamic femininity," in eds. Mamadou Diouf and Mara Leichtman, New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration Wealth, Power and Femininity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. There goes the neighborhood: racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. With principal authors William Julius Wilson and Richard Taub; Patrick Carr, Chenoa Flippen, Jennifer Johnson, Maria Kefalas, Reuben May, Jennifer Pashup-Graham, Mary Patillo, and Jolyon Wurr. New York: Vintage. Also published in 2006 by Knopf Press. 2005. "Dakar's Sunnite women: the politics of person," in ed. Muriel Gomez-Perez, L'Islam politique au sud du Sahara. Paris: Karthala. 2003. "Women in Senegal: surviving in a downward socioeconomic spiral," in ed. Lynn Walter, Africa: Women's Issues Worldwide Series. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. "Dakar's Sunnite women: the politics of person." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. December.

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