Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is a professor of religion at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and he is also the author of A History of Islam in America and Competing Visions of Islam in the United States. He is also one of the founding editors of a book series on Islam of the Global West published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.[1] Both he and his books have been quoted and referred to a multitude of times. He is also received a Guggenheim Fellowships Award in the Humanities field for his studies in religion.

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
BornTehran, Iran
OccupationProfessor of religion

Background

He was born in Tehran and grew up in the US.[2] Since 2002, he has been a professor of religion and humanities at Reed College.[3]

He was the professor of the late Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche who along with Rick Best and Micah David-Cole Fletcher defended two young Muslim girls in the 2017 Portland train attack.[4]

Education

A Carnegie Scholar,[5] he got his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1994. He holds an A.M. (1998) and PhD (2003) from Harvard University.[6]

Written work

He is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States which looks at the self-identity of Muslims, both immigrant and indigenous. It is the first in-depth study Los Angeles County's large Muslim population. The book was published in 1997.[7] His other book, A History of Islam in America was published in July 2010. It is a historical look at Muslims in the United States. It also looks at their immigration across the different centuries. Cambridge University press referred to it as a "pioneering work that opens a new window onto American history".[8]

He contributed "American Muslim Activism Following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan" to The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West which was edited by Edward E. Curtis,[9] and The Cambridge Companion to American Islam, edited by Juliane Hammer, Omid Safi with Religious Normativity and Praxis among American Muslims.[10]

Recent activities

Along with Leah Wright Rigueur, author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, he spoke at the Saint Louis University on Friday, January 20, 2017 as part of the "History, Social Justice, and the Age of Trump" discussion.[11]

On May 30, 2017 he appeared on The Takeaway radio show to remember his student Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche who died in the 2017 Portland train attack and discuss the response of the Portland community following the incident.[12][13]

References
  1. Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Islam of the Global West". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  2. Mercy Corps - Action Center's Fall Tuesday U: History of Islam in America
  3. Portland State University - Profiles ยป Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. Lecture at the Portland Center for Public Humanities
  4. New York Times', May 28, 2017 - Three Men Stood Up to Anti-Muslim Attack. Two Paid With Their Lives
  5. Oregon Live, July 17, 2010 - Reed professor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri takes look at U.S. Muslims in new book By Nancy Haught, The Oregonian
  6. Reed College - News Center, Features, Faculty News, Reed professor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri named Carnegie Scholar
  7. ABC-CLIO - Competing Visions of Islam in the United States
  8. Cambridge University Press - Academic / History / American history: general interest / A History of Islam in America
  9. The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West, edited by Edward E. Curtis - 3 "American Muslim Activism Following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan" (2010)
  10. The Cambridge Companion to American Islam, edited by Juliane Hammer, Omid Safi - 12 Religious Normativity and Praxis among American Muslims
  11. St. Louis American, Jan 11, 2017 - Blacks, Muslims women and Trump: SLU hosts dual lecture on Inauguration Day By Chris King
  12. WNYC, May 30, 2017 - Kushner and The Kremlin, Standing Up to Hate, The Growing Burden of Debt
  13. WNYC - Remembering the Men Who Stood Up to Hate in Portland Published by The Takeaway
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