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Mailing Address Institute of African Studies Columbia University 1103 School of International & Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street New York, New York 10027 USA

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Education Ph.D., 2002, Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. M.A., 1996, Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Research Interests Interests primarily in the field of cultural anthropology: Zanzibar ; Islam ; Islamic law ; East Africa ; gender Thesis: "A kadhi in his court: marriage, divorce and Zanzibar's Islamic legal tradition." Kiswahili (fluent); French (advanced); Arabic, modern standard (intermediate); Hebrew, modern (rudimentary)

Teaching Interests 2001-02 Instructor: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, fall and spring semesters. 2001 Instructor: Cultural Anthropology. Southwest Illinois College, summer. 2000 Instructor: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Washington University, University College, fall. 1998 Instructor: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, summer.

Publications * n.d. "Broken Edda and Marital Mistakes: Two Recent Disputes from an Islamic Court in Zanzibar" Included in a volume under review by E.J. Brill, Leiden. 2002 "Buying a Divorce in Zanzibar" Newsletter of the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World 10: 33. 2002 Review of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier. American Anthropologist 104 (2): 688. Conferences and unpublished papers: Forthcoming 2003 "Islamic Legal Education in Zanzibar: Two Kadhis and their Rulings Compared." Paper to be presented to International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), March, Leiden, Netherlands. Forthcoming 2003 "Gender and Legal Knowledge: Divorce Debates in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts." Paper to be presented at the American Anthropological Association, November, New Orleans. November 2002 "Gendered Ideals, Negotiated Realities: Mothers, Daughters, and Wives Pushing Social Boundaries." Co-organizer, session organized with Dr. Margaret Brown and Dr. Scott London, for presentation at American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. 2001 "Kadhis, Shaykhs and Shehas: Islamic Legal Procedure in Post-Revolution Zanzibar." Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, November, Washington DC. 2001 "The Development of Marital Disputes in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts: Two Recent Cases." Paper presented to ISIM at University of Leiden for workshop The Application of Islamic Law in Courts, October, Leiden, Netherlands. 2001 "When is Divorce a Divorce? Establishing Intention." Paper presented to the Law and Society Association, July, Budapest. 2001 "Muslim Women's Court Use in Zanzibar: The Benefits of an Ethnographic Approach." Poster presented to Society for Applied Anthropology, March, Merida, Mexico.

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