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Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Jasmin Zine (Professor Sociology and Religion & Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University). Her publications include numerous journal articles on Islamic feminism and Muslim women’s studies and Muslims and education in the Canadian diaspora. Her books include: Canadian Islamic Schools: Unraveling the Politics of Faith, Gender, Knowledge and Identity (2008, University of Toronto Press) the first ethnography of Islamic schooling in North America and the edited collection, Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada (2012, University of British Columbia Press) and a co-edited book (with Lisa K. Taylor) Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice (2014, Routledge Press). Her most recent book Under Siege : Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation (2022, McGill-Queens University Press) was named on the Hill Times list of best 100 books of 2022. She has also released a book-length report titled, The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia's Ecosystem in the Great White North (2022) , in partnership with the Islamophobia Studies Center and the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California, Berkeley. As an education consultant she has developed award winning curriculum materials that address Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism and has worked as a consultant with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODHIR/OSCE), the Council of Europe, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on developing international guidelines for educators and policy-makers on combating Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims.

Professor Zine is an affiliated faculty member with the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) at U.C. Berkeley, California.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University