Name: Sajida Jalalzai

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2013

School Name: Columbia University

Major: Religious Studies

Description: Sajida Jalalzai received a Ph.D. in the North American Religions subfield from Columbia University. Her dissertation focused on Muslim leadership education in North America and was based on ethnographic research conducted at several Protestant-affiliated theological schools in the United States and Canada that offer various types of Muslim leadership training programs: Hartford Seminary, Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), and Claremont-Lincoln University. She analyzed the formation of North American Islamic authority in intellectual and educational milieus characterized by a dominant Protestant Christian culture.She is an Assistant Professor of Religion (specializing in Islam) at Trinity University in San Antonio.

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