Ithaca College

 All are welcome at the Women's and Gender Studies Social Hour.  Light refreshments served!  

Meet WGST students and affiliated faculty, and our new DIVERSITY SCHOLAR, Shehnaz Haqqani.  

Shehnaz Haqqani joins the Women’s and Gender Studies Program this academic year.  She is currently teaching WGST 241, Islam and Feminism.  In the spring she will be teaching WGST 288, Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East.  She is finishing her dissertation, The Islamic Tradition, Islamic Feminism, and Contemporary Muslims’ Engagements with Gender and Sexuality, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Islamic Studies program at the University of Texas, Austin.  Her scholarly work has been published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the edited volume Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in Global Context (2016, Syracuse University Press), and On Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, the Internet, and Islamophobia (forthcoming, 2017, Indiana University Press) among other venues. Haqqani earned a B.A. from Emory University and an M. A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas, Austin.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Carla Golden at golden@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3504. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Carla Golden at golden@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3504. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.