Name: Maryam Sharrieff

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2021

School Name: Columbia University

Major: International Relations

Description: Maryam Sharrieff is an educator, filmmaker, lecturer, linguist, and researcher of the development of Islam in America. Her research projects have examined the African-American Shi’i Muslim community; Latino converts to Islam in America, the legacy of female scholarship in Islam, and gender and its linguistic implications in the Qur’an and Torah. Sharrieff has studied and researched in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Italy, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates, and most recently presented on Muslim women’s leadership at the World Parliament of Religion’s Conference in Sydney, Australia. In 2013-2014 she was a fellow for Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School’s CIRCLE (Center for Inter-Religious & Communal Leadership Education) program. Sharrieff received her BA in Middle Eastern Studies/Italian/TV & Film from Rutgers University and her Master's in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is now pursuing her PhD in International Relations at Columbia University.

Sponsor: ISF