Juliane Hammer, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Hammer’s latest book, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence (Princeton, 2019), combines ethnographic research and textual analysis to understand violence prevention in US Muslim communities.  She is currently working on a monograph entitled “Patriarchal Islam: Gender, Sex, and Love in the Muslim American Public Square,” and three articles which address respectively Muslim inclusion of LGBTQI+ Muslims, the interdependence of racial and religious hierarchies in the production of anti-Muslim hostility in the US, and Muslim contributions to theories of intersectionality. 

This talk is part of the WGS and Islamic Worlds Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, and the Islamic Worlds Initiative.