University of Denver

Faculty Member, Religious Studies

Assistant Professor

AHSS

About

Dr. Andrea Stanton (PhD, Columbia University) is Assistant Professor of Islam. Her 2011-12 courses include a FSEM on the life and influence of Muhammad and an introductory-level course on Islam in the United States, which connects the early presence of enslaved African Muslims and colonial-era debates on whether a Muslim could be president to US Muslim communities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Her mixed undergraduate / graduate courses include Qur'an and Hadith, Islamic Fundamentalisms, and Introduction to Islam. During the Fall 2011 Interterm session, she will be teaching an undergraduate elective course, Islam on Film.

Trained as a historian, Stanton’s research focuses on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Islam in the Middle East, looking at expressions of faith and religious identity in print and broadcast media, and investigating the sometimes conflictual, sometimes cooperative relationship between new technologies and claims to religious authority. Her most recent work examines government management of religious broadcasts in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s, connecting this to a broader history of Middle Eastern states controlling religious communities’ access to radio and television, including the complications engendered by the satellite phenomenon that started in the late 1990s.

She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the American University of Beirut, and worked at the NYU Center for Dialogues, an academic, policy, and community focused institute that fosters initiatives for sustainable engagement with Muslim communities in the United States and abroad.

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