Rahman elected president of South Asian Muslim Studies Association
Associate Professor of History Raisur Rahman was elected president of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA), recently.
Rahman has served on the SAMSA executive board since 2011 and as the program co-chair of its annual symposium held in Wisconsin for the past four years.
He said he “looks forward to working with scholars across disciplines to effectively disseminate knowledge about South Asia and its Muslim cultures, as well as offer SAMSA as a platform for everyone in the field to converge.”
The mission of the organization is to enhance visibility of scholars and studies of Muslims of South Asia, the largest concentration of Muslims anywhere in the world and one of the most diverse. SAMSA is an affiliate organization of the Association for Asian Studies and has worked closely with other professional bodies.
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Faculty Fellowships awarded for new year
Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty who are newly-selected recipients of Wake Forest Faculty Fellowships, effective July 2016. The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship program is a program of financial support designed to honor the University’s best teacher-scholars.
New recipients are:
–Uli Bierbach, professor of chemistry, Levison Faculty Fellowship
–Rob Erhardt, assistant professor of mathematics & statistics, Sterge Faculty Fellowship
–Tiffany Judy, assistant professor of Romance Languages, Baker Family Fund Faculty Fellowship
–Claudia Kairoff, professor of English, MacDonough Family Faculty Fellowship
–Frank Moore, assistant professor of mathematics & statistics, Sterge Faculty Fellowship
–Raisur Rahman, associate professor of history, Henry S. Stroupe History Faculty Fund Fellowship
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Faculty publications: October updates
Amoureux, Jack L., & Brent J. Steele, Eds. (Politics & International Affairs). Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice (New International Relations series). Routledge. October 2015.
Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier. (Romance Languages). French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Academic. October 2015.
Miller, Christian B., R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel, & William Fleeson, Eds. (Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology). Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology. Oxford University Press. October 2015.
Rahman, M. Raisur. (History). Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India. Oxford University Press. October 2015.
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Rahman's new book formally launched with New Delhi event
A new book by Associate Professor of History Raisur Rahman was formally launched by the Hon’ble Vice President of India Hamid Ansari at a function in New Delhi, India. The book is titled, “Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India” and published by Oxford University Press.
The book launch was followed by a discussion led by the former chief election commissioner of India and the former president of a New Delhi-based university.
Wake Forest was a co-sponsor of the event, which was well attended and widely covered by national news media in India.
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Faculty development award
M. Raisur Rahman of the history department has been selected as the next recipient of the Nathan and Julie Hatch Prize for Academic Excellence. Rahman will spend a week at the Summer Research Institute conducted by Harris Manchester at Oxford University to work on his research proposal, “Bombay Muslims: A History of Diversity and Cosmopolitanism in Modern India.”
Previous recipients of the Nathan and Julie Hatch Prize include Sam Gladding (CNS), Thomas Frank (HST) and Kendall Tarte (ROM).
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