Africa

United States of America

Associate Professor of Sociology

Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA

eaugis@ramapo.edu

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

phone: 201-684-6849
fax: 201-684-7257

http://ww2.ramapo.edu/sshs/faculty/Augis.aspx

Senegal

Muslim women, labor migration

Race relations, religion, gender

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.

race ; Islam ; gender ; labor migration ; West Africa.