Dr. Kelly Pemberton
Dr. Kelly Pemberton
Associate Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Dr. Kelly Pemberton has co-edited a volume of essays, Shared Idioms Sacred Symbols and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (Routledge 2009), and written a monograph, Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in the Indian Subcontinent (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). Her work has been published in academic journals, encyclopedias, and edited volumes.
Civil Society
Comparative Research Methods (esp. trans-national comparative research)
Gender and Development
Gender and Islam in South Asia and the Middle East
The Landscape of Religious Authority and Authorities
Migration, Transnationalism, and Identity
Ritual Studies
Sufism
Her research covers mysticism, the landscape of religious authority and authorities, and civil society in South Asia and the Middle East, especially as these relate to gender. She also consults on projects focusing on the Middle East and Asia for non-profit organizations, government agencies, and private businesses.
Global Islamic Feminisms
Introduction to Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gender and Islamic Activism
Gender Activism in the Muslim World
Women and Western Religion
Women in Islam
Brand Islam in the Digital Age
BOOKS
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in the Indian Subcontinent. University of South Carolina Press, 2010
Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (co-edited with Michael Nijhawan, York University, Toronto) Routledge Press, 2008
ARTICLES
"The Politics of Gender in the Sufi Imaginary”, in Islam, Sufism, and Everyday Politics in South Asia. Ed. Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher. Routledge Books (forthcoming Feb. 2016)
“Sufi Tarikat and the Turkish State: Accommodations and Uneasy Alliances” in Sufism, Pluralism, and Democracy. Ed Sarwar Alam and Clinton Bennett. Equinox Publishing (forthcoming July 2016)
“Sufis and Social Activism: a Chishti Response to Communal Strife in India Today” in In Search of South Asian Sufis, eds. Clinton Bennett & Charles Ramsey. Continuum Books, 2012
“An Islamic Discursive Tradition on Reform as Seen in the Writing of Deoband’s Maulana Taqi ‘Usmani” Muslim World vol. 99, no. 3, July 2009.
BA, French, Vassar College,
MA, International Studies and Religion, University of Washington
PhD, Religion, Columbia University.