Sabah Firoz Uddin 7 Digital Drive, #211, Nashua, NH (213)

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1 Sabah Firoz Uddin 7 Digital Drive, #211, Nashua, NH uddin.sf@gmail.com; (213) EDUCATION Doctorate of Philosophy, Women s Studies March 2013 University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Navigating between the Religio-Cultural and the Secular: Responding to the Muslim Woman Question in Diasporic Britain Masters of Arts, Women s Studies University of South Florida June 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Women s Studies University of Massachusetts at Boston Summa Cum Laude May 2001 LANGUAGES Fluent in written and conversational English (Mother Tongue) Fluent in conversational Urdu Basic written and conversational French and Arabic TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Lecturer, Women s and Gender Studies Winter present Merrimack College, North Andover, MA Gender and Society; Introduction to Race and Ethnicity Developed curriculum design and set agenda for undergraduate course Directed 30 undergraduate students Organized and taught weekly lectures Assisted students with problems associated with coursework Teaching Fellow, Women s Studies, UCLA Fall 2009 The Politics of Fashion: A Global Inquiry into the Construction and Adornment Women s Dress Developed curriculum design and set agenda for upper division undergraduate seminar Directed 15 undergraduate students Organized and taught weekly lecture

2 Assisted students with problems associated with coursework Teaching Assistant, Women s Studies, UCLA Fall 2008, Winter 2006, Introduction to Women s Studies Winter 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004 Led section of 25 students through discussion of course material Planned and taught weekly supplemental lecture on social and gender issues Assisted students with problems associated with coursework RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, School of International Service, American University Fall Provided editorial support to Professor Akbar Ahmed on his book, The Thistle and the Drone. Conducted literature reviews and internet-based research for Professor Kristin Diwan. Graduate Research Assistant, Women s Studies, UCLA Fall 2003, Winter 2004 Compiled data to help develop Global South Project Summer 2005, Summer 2006 Consulted research databases Edited article submissions for the Journal of Middle Eastern Women s Studies Conducted literature reviews and gathered genealogical data for women and public health project Professional Reader, Anthropology, UCLA Spring 2006 Gender and Development Reviewed literature related to gender and international development Professional Reader, Anthropology, UCLA Women in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Spring 2004 Reviewed literature related to gender in a global perspective RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS Fashioning the Ummah A Thoroughly Modern Muslim Movement. MESA s 49 th Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, November, Burka Avenger - Pakistani Cartoon Taking on the Taliban. World Congress of Middle East Studies Conference Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, August Shahidas: Muslim Women Re-Imagining Community Development Initiatives through an Islamic Peace-Paradigm. Journal of Middle East Women s Studies 2014 Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop: Transnational Feminisms & the New Middle East Insurrections. Yale University, New Haven, CT, April

3 A Parallel Public Sphere: Muslim Women-Only Spaces In Diasporic Britain. The (Muslim) Woman Question-Competing Representations, Contested Futures: Critical Islamic Reflections Conference Yale University, New Haven, CT, April The (Re)presentation of the Female Muslim Self in Alternative British Muslim Knowledge Production. 7th European Feminist Research Conference: Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 2009 The Deployment of Muslim Women-Only Spaces in the British Landscape: Is it a Move from the Margins? Gender and Power in the Muslim World -11th Annual Women s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, NY, March 2009 Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought: Questions of Theory, Identity, Legitimacy, Authenticity and Belonging. Co-authored by Azza Basarudin. Thinking Gender: Graduate Student Research Conference. UCLA Center for the Study of Women, CA, March 2005 In Negotiation with Islam: Possibilities of Gender Reform in a Modern Islamic State. Session Chair. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January Chechen Female Suicide Bombers: An Answer to the Woman Question. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought: Questions of Theory, Identity, Legitimacy, Authenticity and Belonging. Co-authored by Azza Basarudin. International Seminar on Islamic Thought, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December The Woman Question: The Ghandian Perspective. The Association for Research on Mothering s 7 th Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, October The Exploration of Human-Rights Education in Pakistan and the Mobilization of its Media. Southeastern Women s Studies Annual Conference 2003, Virginia Tech, VA, March The Limitations of Transnational Human-Rights Oriented Activism in Opposing Honor Killings. Southeastern Women s Studies Annual Conference 2002, Valdosta State University, GA, March SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Uddin, Sabah Firoz. Writing Politics and Piety on Women s Bodies: A Study of the Duppatta Debate in Pakistan. Manuscript in Preparation for Submission. Uddin, Sabah Firoz. Mediating Modesty: What Should An Islamic Feminist Wear? Manuscript in Preparation for Submission FELLOWSHIPS American Institute of Pakistan Studies Summer Research Grant,

4 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship , Finalist Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Spring 2010 Center of the Study of Women Travel Grant, Spring 2009 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Winter 2009 Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Winter 2007 Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in French, Declined Center of European and Eurasian Studies Pre-Dissertation Summer Fellowship, Summer 2006 Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Winter Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Arabic, Center of the Study of Women Travel Grant, Fall Quality of Graduate Education Grant, Fall Center of the Study of Women Travel Grant, Spring SERVICE ACTIVITIES Panel Presenter, SJW Dialogue: Reverse Murder: The Chapel Hill 3, WHY? Unveiling the Hypocrisy of the Media, Merrimack College, April Member, Global South Project, UCLA Workshop Co-Facilitator, As I See It: Views of Muslim Students on Teaching and Learning at USF, Center for 21 st Century Teaching Excellence, USF, February Member, Women s Status Presidential Advisory Committee, University of South Florida COMMUNITY SERVICE International Institute of New England September May 2001 Boston, MA Harvard University Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic Spring 2001 Cambridge, MA 4

5 REFERENCES Dr. Sondra Hale UCLA Department of Anthropology/Women s Studies 341 Haines Hall, Box Los Angeles, CA, USA Tel: ; sonhale@ucla.edu Dr. Dominic Thomas UCLA Department of French & Francophone Studies 212 Royce Hall Los Angeles, CA, USA Tel: ; dominict@humnet.ucla.edu Dr. Gordene MacKenzie Merrimack College Women s and Gender Studies Department North Andover, MA, Tel: ; gordene.mackenzie@merrimack.edu 5