Name: Nancy A. Khalil

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2013

School Name: Harvard University

Major: Anthropology

Description: Nancy A. Khalil holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University and serves as a professor at the University of Michigan. She received a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Communication from Boston University, an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Boston College and an A.M. in Anthropology from Harvard. Her research received support from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, MSA National, as well as Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, Pluralism Project and Center for American Political Studies. Her interests include transnational studies and migration, religious freedom and law, Muslim societies, nationalism and citizenship. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as Muslim Chaplain at Wellesley College and Advisor to their Multi-faith Living and Learning Community. Nancy also co-founded a non-profit, Muslim Justice League (MJL). The Muslim Justice League (MJL), founded in Boston in 2014, defends human and civil rights against erosion in the ongoing “War on Terror.”

Sponsor: Zehra Attari Memorial Scholarship