Erin J. Augis (Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA)

Submitted: Wed, 25 November 2009


Erin J. Augis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Social Science and Human Services
Ramapo College
505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, New Jersey  07430  USA

phone:  201-684-6849
fax:    201-684-7257
email:  eaugis@ramapo.edu

Web: http://ww2.ramapo.edu/sshs/faculty/Augis.aspx


Teaching interests: 
Race relations, religion, gender

Research Interests: 
Muslim women, labor migration


Publications:

Forthcoming [2011]. "'Our parents and religion': challenges to Senegalese 
social hierarchies by young Islamist women," in ed. Marie-Nathalie Le 
Blanc and Muriel Gomez-Perez, L'Afrique d'une génération  
l'autre.  Paris: Karthala.

Forthcoming [2011].  "Dakar's Sunnite women: the dialectic of submission 
and defiance in a globalizing city," in ed. Mamadou Diouf, Tolerance, 
Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal.  New York: Columbia University 
Press.

2009.  "Young Sunnite women and economic liberalization in Dakar, Senegal: 
self, solidarity, and growing up with global capitalism."  Special issue 
of Afrique contemporaine edited by Leonardo Villaln and 
Jean-Louis Triaud.
       
2009.  "Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite women negotiate power and 
belief in orthodox Islamic femininity," in eds. Mamadou Diouf and Mara 
Leichtman, New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration 
Wealth, Power and Femininity.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2007.  There goes the neighborhood: racial, ethnic, and class tensions 
in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. With 
principal authors William Julius Wilson and Richard Taub; Patrick Carr, 
Chenoa Flippen, Jennifer Johnson, Maria Kefalas, Reuben May, Jennifer 
Pashup-Graham, Mary Patillo, and Jolyon Wurr.  New York: Vintage. 
Also published in 2006 by Knopf Press.

2005.  "Dakar's Sunnite women: the politics of person," in ed. Muriel 
Gomez-Perez, L'Islam politique au sud du Sahara. Paris: 
Karthala.

2003.  "Women in Senegal: surviving in a downward socioeconomic spiral," 
in ed. Lynn Walter, Africa: Women's Issues Worldwide Series.  
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.

2002. "Dakar's Sunnite women: the politics of person." Ph.D. Dissertation, 
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 
December.