{"id":1182,"date":"2018-02-02T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:52:14","slug":"fulbright-award-furthers-trinity-college-associate-professor-of-international-studies-janet-l-bauers-research-on-islam-in-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2018\/02\/02\/fulbright-award-furthers-trinity-college-associate-professor-of-international-studies-janet-l-bauers-research-on-islam-in-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright Award Furthers Trinity College Associate Professor of International Studies Janet L. Bauer’s Research on Islam in Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hartford, Connecticut, January 19, 2018 \u2013 Trinity College Associate Professor of International Studies\u00a0Janet L. Bauer<\/a>\u00a0has received a Fulbright Global Scholar grant\u2014an award designed to support multicountry, transregional projects\u2014for her research project on\u00a0The Social Geographies of Islam in Diaspora: Race, Gender, Generation, and Place<\/em>. With this $25,690 Fulbright award, Bauer is engaged throughout the 2017-18 academic year in research at sites in Canada, Germany, and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

Bauer\u2019s area of specialization is the ethnography of mobility and gender in Islamic societies, a focus that began when she was a graduate student at Stanford University, where she earned both her M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) in anthropology. During the past 25 years, she has continued to address questions about Muslim women in diaspora through her longitudinal research, following the same populations over several generations in different Muslim-minority societies. This includes ongoing collaborative research with her Trinity students working among refugee groups in the metro Hartford area.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Fulbright research represents the culmination of my work on Muslim diasporas in which I am focusing on women\u2019s activism and their engagement\u2014or nonengagement\u2014with Islamic heritage,\u201d said Bauer. \u201cMy goal is to increase our understanding of how immigrants\u2014in this case, Muslim women and youth\u2014use both local and global ties to successfully negotiate places of belonging for themselves and their communities. Using a comparative approach has allowed me to contrast the role of different contexts\u2014of multiculturalism, of specific places, and of immigrant histories\u2014in shaping this process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauer, a Trinity faculty member since 1984, completed the first segment of her Fulbright project during fall 2017, conducting research in Trinidad and Tobago, hosted by the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies. Beginning in February 2018, she will be based for three months at the Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Then, from May to July, she will be in Germany, where her host institution will be the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of these sites provides a unique set of circumstances for better understanding the challenges faced by Muslim women in Muslim-minority contexts,\u201d Bauer said. \u201cThis includes anxieties that can arise within Muslim communities because of ethno-cultural differences in religious traditions or generational differences, as well as pushback from non-Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross the globe, Muslims are confronting an onslaught of negative stereotypes and a fear of Islam,\u201d said Bauer. \u201cIt\u2019s important to avoid generalizing about Muslims, especially Muslim women, and to remember that most of our Muslim neighbors are an integral part of our communities, leading productive lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauer\u2019s current Fulbright project builds upon her prior research projects, which include: \u201cThe Americanization of Muslim Refugees in a Majority-Minority City: Understanding Black-Latino-Refugee Relationships in Hartford;\u201d \u201cRace, Gender, and Community in Muslim Trinidad;\u201d and \u201cIranian Women and the Politics of Exile.\u201d Her current research, she noted, will further inform her work with Trinity students and with Muslim communities in Hartford and elsewhere around the world. She plans to produce a book-length monograph on gender and race in Muslim diasporas following her return to Hartford from Germany.<\/p>\n

Bauer\u2019s courses at Trinity include \u201cModern Iran,\u201d \u201cHartford Global Migration Lab,\u201d \u201cImmigrants and Refugees: Strangers in Strange Lands,\u201d and \u201cYouth Culture in the Muslim World.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2014, Bauer has served as a commissioner on the City of Hartford\u2019s Commission for Refugee and Immigrant Affairs. She is a moderator for the \u201cHonest Conversations with Your Muslim Neighbors\u201d program of the Connecticut Council for Interreligious Understanding. She also is active with local organizations supporting immigrants in Hartford, including the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association Welcoming Committee, the South Marshall Interfaith Coalition, and Hartford Public Library\u2019s Immigrant Advisory Group.<\/p>\n

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in more than 160 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Kathy Andrews<\/a><\/em>
\nPhoto by Nick Caito<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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