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Caleb Elfenbein

Associate Professor, Departments of History and Religious Studies; Director, Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College

Caleb Elfenbein is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies at Grinnell College, where he is also Director of the Center for the Humanities. His work explores religion, community, public life, and human welfare in different times and places. He has published on these themes as they relate to community life in Egypt, South Asia, and the United States. He is author of Fear in Your Heart: What Islamophobia Can Tell Us about Public Life in Today’s America (NYU Press) and is editor of MappingIslamophobia.org.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor, Departments of History and Religious Studies; Director, Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College

Education

  • 2009 
    UC Santa Barbara, Ph.D, religious studies
  • 2001 
    Harvard Divinity School, Masters in Theological Studies