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Nadia Nader

Announcements

http://www.wiko-eume.de/en/fellows/academic-year-20102011.html
I have been awarded a one year post-doctoral fellowship for 2010-2011 in an International Competition - “Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe”. EUME is a research program administered by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin.

Islamic Legal History


Graduate Student
B.A., Alexandria University Egypt; M.A. (Religious Studies), UCSB; M.A. (History), UCSB

Advisor: Stephen Humphreys

Dissertation Title

  • The Memory of the Mihna in a Haunted Time: Dogmatic Theology, Neo-Mu’tazilism and Islamic Legal Reform.

Teaching Fields

  • Islamic History.
    Historiography, Medieval Islam, Formation of Islam, Biographies, Intellectual History.
  • Islamic Law.
    History of Law, Legal Theory, Islamic law, Islamic Family Law.
  • Modern Middle Eastern History.
    Women and Gender, Reform Movements,The Islamic Revival, Egypt.
  • Islam in the West.
  • Human Rights.

Teaching Assistantships

  • LawSo 194MD, ADVANCED TOPICS: Islam in America.
    Fall 2007
  • LawSo 165, Critical Terrorism and Security Studies.
    Spring 2007
  • LawSo 162, Human Rights.
    Winter 2007
  • LawSo 2, Socio-legal Research Methods.
    Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Winter 2005
  • LawSo 112, Law and the American Society.
    Spring 2006, Fall 2004
  • Hist 46, Survey of Middle Eastern History.
    Winter 2006
  • Globl2, Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes.
    Spring 2005

Publications

  • [Book review] Sami Zubaida, Law and Power in the Islamic World (New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 2005)
    IJMES, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.39, No. 1, (February 2007): 133- 134.
  • "Women, Islam and the Theology of Power"
    NETWORK: United Nations women’s Newsletter, Volume. 9, No. 2/2005.

Awards

  • UCSB, Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship & Department of History Fee Fellowship.
    Spring 2010, Winter 2010, Fall 2009
  • Steve and Barbara Mendell Fellowship in Cultural Literacy by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life.
    Spring 2009
  • UCSB, Graduate Division Dean’s Fellowship.
    Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
  • UCSB, Department of History Richard and Jeanne William Endowed Graduate Fellowship & Department of History Associate Fellowship.
    Spring 2008
  • Nominated for the UCSB Outstanding Graduate Student Association (GSA) Teaching Assistant Award for 2006-2007.
    Spring 2007

Research Assistantships

  • UC Berkeley, Center of Middle East Studies, Prof. Ira Lapidus.
    Winter 2008 – Spring 2008
  • UCSB, Law and Society Program, Prof. Kathleen Moore: "Muslim Women in America: The challenge of Islamic Identity Today".
    Fall 2005, Fall 2004
  • United Nations Secretariat, New York, Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women.
    Summer 2005
  • UCSB, Law and Society Program, Prof. Paul Amar: "Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East".
    Winter 2005
  • UCSB, Department of Religious Studies, Prof. Roger. Friedland: The Role and the Representation of Women in Islamist literature and Ideology.
    Fall 2003- Fall 2007

Presentations

  • “The Miḥna Nostalgic and the Reform Project”
    World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) Conference in Barcelona, July 2010.
  • “Neo-Mu’tazilism and the Reform Project”
    Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics (SSME) Annual Meeting in San Jose, January 2010.
  • “The Mihna and the Politics of Memory”
    Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting in Montréal, November 2007.