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Islamic Studies |
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Education |
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Academic Studies of Religion |
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Dr. Hoffman specializes in academic studies of religion. |
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She maintains active affiliation with the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies, and the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. |
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She has 38 years of professional excellence in the academic study of religion. |
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She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic studies from the University of Chicago. Between earning her degrees she was a fellow in the Center for Arabic Study Abroad program, which is a twelve-month intensive, advanced Arabic immersion program held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. |
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“Sufism, Mystics and Saints in Modern Egypt,” University of South Carolina Press, 1995; “The Essentials of Ibadi Islam,” Syracuse University Press, 2012; “Making the New Middle East: Politics, Culture, and Human Rights,” Syracuse University Press, 2019. |
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Dr. Hoffman has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois since 1983, as a visiting lecturer from 1983 to 1986, assistant professor from 1986 to 1994, associate professor from 1994 to 2011, and professor since 2011. She served as Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from 2011 to 2015 and as head of the Department of Religion from 2015 to 2019. In 1996 she was named a University Scholar in recognition of her outstanding research and teaching. She been a Carnegie Scholar, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, and a Fulbright fellow. |
