Anna Mansson McGinty, Assistant Professor

Office: Bolton 478 (Women's Studies, Bolton 742)
Phone: 414-229-2650 (Women's Studies, 229-6059)
Email: mansson@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
Professor Anna Mansson McGinty
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Education:
Ph.D., European Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden, 2002
M.A., European Ethnology, Lund University, 1996
B.A., European Ethnology, Lund University, 1994

Current Courses: Spring 2008
Geog 410
MW 9:30-10:45am

WMNS 300
MW 11:00-12:15pm

Office Hours:
MW 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment

Research and Teaching Interests:
Islam and Muslim Women in North America and Europe, Identity Formation, Gender, Conversion to Islam, Islamic Feminism, Ethnographic Method, Social Theory and Cultural Theory, Person-Centered Ethnography and Psychological Anthropology

Representative Publications:
Becoming Muslim: Western Women's Conversions to Islam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403976112

Muslim efter noggrant val. Invandrare och Minoriteter nr 1, 2003.

Formation of alternative femininities through Islam: Feminist approaches among Muslim converts in Sweden, Women's Studies International Forum, forthcoming.