Rosemary Hicks
Affiliation
- Graduate Student Fellow, Department of Religion
Research
Rosemary R. Hicks is a doctoral candidate in the Columbia University Religion Department focusing on Islam in the United States and intellectual histories of pluralism. She is a 2007-2008 American Fellow under the American Association of University Women, and is writing an ethno-history investigating how Muslims in New York engage in inter-religious endeavors while identifying as religious and political moderates. Rosemary is interested in how various groups have responded to increased religious and ethnic diversity by forming alliances around particular issues and/or appealing to neo-liberalism in the midst of disagreements over secularism, multiculturalism, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has organized two graduate student conferences examining theoretical and methodological issues in religious studies and has published in American Quarterly (2007), Comparative Islamic Studies (2007) and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2004, New Scholar Award winner). She has lectured in women's studies and American religious history courses, taught "Islam in the United States," and spent the summer of 2007 in Lebanon under a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.
