Principal Investigator

Roxanne D. MarcotteThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Roxanne D. Marcotte, who is trained in Islamic studies (Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University), is an Associate Professor of contemporary Islam in the Département de sciences des religions at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

She is a member of the Institut de recherches en études féministes (IREF) and a regular member of the Chaire de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) de l’université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Her past research focused broadly on a number of contemporary issues, such as Islamic feminism, Qur’anic hermeneutics, Islamic law, Muslims online, Muslim women, and medieval Islamic philosophy.

Roxanne D. Marcotte, as chief investigator, will lead the research project. She will also oversee research in the area of community.

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Co-investigator

Jennifer SelbyThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jennifer Selby is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Religious Studies, as well as an affiliate member of the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University (since 2007). She completed her dissertation on secularism and Muslim women in France at McMaster University and a postdoctoral fellowship examining Islam and public policy in Ontario at Harvard University.

Her present research centers upon two broad ethnographic-based projects. In the first place, transnational fieldwork in Montréal, Québec, Kabylia, in Algeria, and in Petit-Nanterre, a Parisian suburb, for a project examining Islam and marriage preferences. 

In the second place, an examination of orthodoxy and everyday religious practices among Muslims in St. John’s (Newfoundland), with collaborators Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa) and Abdie Kazemipur (University of Lethbridge).

As co-investigator, Jennifer Selby will oversee the research area on religious authority.

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Rubina RamjiThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Rubina (Ruby) Ramji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious and the Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Cape Breton University.  Her dissertation focused on images of Islamic women in various media discourses, including film and television.  She followed the PhD with a postdoctoral fellowship, which focused on issues of gender, ethnicity and identity amongst Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu second generation youth in Canada.

She is the Film Editor of the Journal of Religion and Film and, after serving a four year term as Senior Editor of Golem: Journal of Religion and Monsters, she now serves as a peer-review editor. She served as Chair of the Religion, Film and Visual Culture Group for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) for six years and is currently the President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR/SCÉR) (2012-2014) and a Religious Studies Representative on the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program Committee for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has also worked as a policy analyst for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, with specific work on Gender Based Analysis.

Her research interests center broadly on images of Islamic women in various media discourses, including film and television and issues of gender, ethnicity and identity amongst Muslim youth in Canada. She continues this research as a co-investigator for the SSHRC funded Religion and Diversity Project.

Rubina Ramji, as co-investigator, will oversee research in the area of religious identity

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A. Brenda AndersonThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A. Brenda Anderson is Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies at Luther College at The University of Regina.  She completed her dissertation in Religious Studies on “Feminist Interreligious Dialogical Activism: A Hybrid Space for New Identities," on Muslim and Christian feminists.  

Her research and teaching focusses generally on issues of women in religion, colonialism/post-colonialism and violence against women, and specifically focusses on women in Islam and on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.  In 2008, she co-chaired an international conference on Missing Women in Canada and Mexico, out of which proceedings were published in 2010.  She has been involved with interreligious dialogue at the national and international level through The United Church of Canada and The World Council of Churches,  as a delegate to conferences in Geneva, Switzerland, and Harare, Zimbabwe.  Brenda co-chairs a committee of the Regina Multi-Faith Forum which will host the international conference of the North American Interfaith Network in 2015.  She is serving her second term as a Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR/SCÉR). 

She has offered several new courses at her university, including Missing Indigenous Women: A Global Perspective, Feminisms and Activism: Dancing through the Minefields, and a study abroad course in Mexico on Violence against Women. She also co-teaches in Luther’s Interdisciplinary Studies Program on globalization. 

Brenda Anderson, as co-investigator, will oversee research in the area of intra-religious and interreligious diversity

 

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