FACULTY:		 John Bowen has been working in Europe for the past 6 years on how Muslims adapt the Islamic tradition to new social and legal environments. His forthcoming Can Islam be French? (Princeton, 2008) looks at schools, mosques, and sacrifice in the Paris region.

 Carolyn Sargent has been investigating changing gender roles, reproductive health, and the influence of Islam on West African migrants in Paris. Peter Benson studies immigrant communities in the American South, focusing mainly on meanings of place and citizenship among Mexican and Latino farmworkers. He is also interested in cultural issues in healthcare services to immigrant communities (see recent article in PLoS Medicine).

Lois Beck studies Iranians in the diaspora, particularly those who are members of ethnic minorities, such as Turks, Kurds, and Baluch.

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STUDENTS:

 Stéphanie Larchanché is a PhD candidate working in Paris on how mental health clinics interpret the cases brought by African immigrants. Anna Jacobsen is conducting dissertation research in Kenya and the United States on how Somali refugees reshape ideas and practices of community and nation. Bertin Louis is completing his dissertation on Haitian immigrants to Nassau and the broader networks of Haitian Protestant missionaries in the Caribbean and North America. Sarah Kendzior is studying the Uzbek political dissident movement as it uses internet communications to disseminate political writings and in particular political poetry.