About

Megan Hibler Reid
Assistant Professor of Religion

Contact Information
Office: ACB 235
Phone: (213) 740-3623
E-mail: meganrei@usc.edu

 

Education
B.A. Islamic Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 6/1989
M.A. Islamic Studies, UCLA, 6/1994
M.A. Religion, Princeton, 6/1998
Ph.D. Religion, Princeton, 9/2005
 

Description of Research

Research Keywords
History of Islamic Law; Religion and the Body; Women and the Islamic Tradition; Islamic Constructions of Gender; Sufi Literature and Practice; Islamic Theology; Islam and African-American Religious History
 

Funded Research

Other Funded Research
USC-Huntington Faculty Fellowship, 2005-2006   
 

Honors and Awards
Carnegie Scholar, 9/1/2007-9/1/2009  
"The Abu Ghraib Seminar Project" USC Provost’s Initiative Grant , 2007-2008   
American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, 2006-2007   
USC-Huntington Faculty Fellowship, 2005  
Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001  
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship: Egypt and France, 1999-2000  
University Tuition Fellowship and Stipend, 1997-1998  
Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, 1995-1997  
Ora J. Bretall Fellow in Religion, 1995-1996  
Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, 1991-1994  
Fulbright Grant: Damascus, Syria, 1989-1990  
 

Service to the Profession

Professional Memberships
International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, 2005-2007  
American Academy of Religion, 2002-2007  
Middle East Studies Association, 1992-2007  
Middle East Medievalists, 2003-2006  
 
 
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