Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno
My primary research interests are in sociocultural anthropology, including the anthropology of transnational migration and diaspora, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Islam and religious conversion movements, human rights, historical memory, and the politics of multiculturalism and citizenship. I am interested in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Europe, as well as the historical and contemporary connections between these regions.
So far, my ethnographic research has focused on southern Spain, where I’ve studied social encounters between Moroccan migrant Muslims, European converts to Islam, and Catholic and secular Spaniards. I focus on the ways that Muslims and non-Muslims differently remember and invoke southern Spain’s Muslim history as a way of navigating renewed religious and cultural pluralism in the context of a growing Muslim minority. I’m especially interested in the gendered, racial, and political dynamics of debates about the place of Islam in Spain’s past and present.
Supervisors: Andrew Shryock
Address: Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street, MS0096
Reno, NV 89557-0096
My primary research interests are in sociocultural anthropology, including the anthropology of transnational migration and diaspora, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Islam and religious conversion movements, human rights, historical memory, and the politics of multiculturalism and citizenship. I am interested in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Europe, as well as the historical and contemporary connections between these regions.
So far, my ethnographic research has focused on southern Spain, where I’ve studied social encounters between Moroccan migrant Muslims, European converts to Islam, and Catholic and secular Spaniards. I focus on the ways that Muslims and non-Muslims differently remember and invoke southern Spain’s Muslim history as a way of navigating renewed religious and cultural pluralism in the context of a growing Muslim minority. I’m especially interested in the gendered, racial, and political dynamics of debates about the place of Islam in Spain’s past and present.
Supervisors: Andrew Shryock
Address: Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street, MS0096
Reno, NV 89557-0096
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