Title: Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Health
Organization: Duke University
Areas of Expertise: Interfaith Issues, Politics and Civil Society, Women's Issues
Media Experience: Print, Radio
Location: Durham, NC
Contact: Jen'nan Read
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Phone 949 266 4249
Jen'nan Ghazal Read is an associate professor of sociology at Duke University and is the director of postdoctoral research at the Duke Global Health Institute. She is currently a Carnegie Scholar examining factors that affect Muslim-American political integration, with the goal of understanding how ethnic and religious diversity of Muslim Americans impacts their participation in democratic processes.
Dr. Read has focused her career on understanding the economic, cultural and political assimilation experiences of Muslim Americans and Arab Americans, and she has published widely on this topic, including numerous a book and articles. Her work has dispelled myths of Muslim and Arab women by finding that their family and work experiences are remarkably similar to that of other U.S. ethnic and religious populations, such as Evangelical Christians. In addition to the U.S. context, Dr. Read has been doing comparative work on Muslim integration in the U.S. and France, looking at how state policies affect the socio-economic and political integration of Muslim minorities.
Dr. Read has been quoted in numerous media outlets, including National Public Radio; has published op-eds in several regional newspapers; and has been interviewed by BBC radio. She has received prestigious awards and grants, including ones from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Russell Sage Foundation, U.S. Census Bureau, and Borchard Foundation. Read has also been an invited guest speaker at Yale, Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the Grand Rounds at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY).
Born in the United States to an American mother and Libyan father, Dr. Read lived in Libya, Egypt and the U.S. intermittently during her youth. She returned to the U.S. permanently in 1987 after the U.S. bombings in Libya in 1986. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Midwestern State University in 1995 as the Student Body President. She then went on to receive her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy and Department of Sociology at Rice University from 2001-2003.
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