Historical anthropologist and documentary filmmaker
Zareena Grewal
Awards
Victor Turner Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Historical anthropology, ethnography, American studies
Institutions
Yale College
Zareena A. Grewal is a historical anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She is an associate professor at Yale College and the author of a 2013 ethnography on Islam in the United States.
Career[edit]
Grewal is an associate professor of American studies, ethnicity, race, and migration, and religious studies at Yale College.[1] In 2004, she directed and produced her debut film, By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam.[2] In 2013, Grewal authored her first book, Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority.[3] The ethnography won a Victor Turner Prize [ar].[2] In October 2023, she gained national attention due to tweets expressing support for violent action taken by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.[4] In response, a student led petition to terminate Grewal garnered more than 40,000 signatures.[5]
Curtis, Edward E. (2015). "Review of Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority, Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 47 (3): 643–646. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 43998026.