Erin Stiles (Columbia University, New York)

Submitted:  Tues, 1 October 2002


Dr. Erin Stiles
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Institute of African Studies
Columbia University
1103 School of International & Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street
New York, New York   10027  USA

phone:  (212) 854-0092
fax:    (212) 854-4639
e-mail: es2196@columbia.edu



Research interests primarily in the field of cultural anthropology:
Zanzibar ; Islam ; Islamic law ; East Africa ; gender


Education:
 
Ph.D., 2002, Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.  
Thesis: "A kadhi in his court: marriage, divorce and Zanzibar's Islamic 
legal tradition."

M.A., 1996, Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder 


Languages: 

Kiswahili (fluent); French (advanced); Arabic, modern standard (intermediate);
Hebrew, modern (rudimentary)


Teaching: 

2001-02 Instructor:  Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.  St. Louis
Community College at Florissant Valley, fall and spring semesters.

2001 Instructor:  Cultural Anthropology. Southwest Illinois College, summer.

2000 Instructor:  Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.  Washington University,
University College, fall.

1998 Instructor:  Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.  St. Louis Community
College at Florissant Valley, summer.


Publications:

n.d.	"Broken Edda and Marital Mistakes:  Two Recent Disputes from an Islamic 
Court in Zanzibar" Included in a volume under review by E.J. Brill, Leiden. 

2002  	"Buying a Divorce in Zanzibar"  Newsletter of the Institute for the 
Study of Islam in the Modern World 10: 33.

2002	Review of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything:  Possession, Power and Identity 
in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier.  American Anthropologist 104 
(2): 688.


Conferences and unpublished papers:

Forthcoming 2003 "Islamic Legal Education in Zanzibar:  Two Kadhis and their
Rulings Compared."  Paper to be presented to International Institute for the
Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), March, Leiden, Netherlands.

Forthcoming 2003 "Gender and Legal Knowledge:  Divorce Debates in Zanzibar's
Islamic Courts."  Paper to be presented at the American Anthropological
Association, November, New Orleans.

November 2002 "Gendered Ideals, Negotiated Realities:  Mothers, Daughters, and
Wives Pushing Social Boundaries."  Co-organizer, session organized with Dr.
Margaret Brown and Dr. Scott London, for presentation at American
Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

2001 "Kadhis, Shaykhs and Shehas:  Islamic Legal Procedure in Post-Revolution
Zanzibar."  Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, November,
Washington DC.

2001 "The Development of Marital Disputes in Zanzibar's Islamic Courts: Two
Recent Cases."  Paper presented to ISIM at University of Leiden for workshop The
Application of Islamic Law in Courts, October, Leiden, Netherlands.

2001 "When is Divorce a Divorce?  Establishing Intention."  Paper presented to 
the Law and Society Association, July, Budapest. 

2001 "Muslim Women's Court Use in Zanzibar:  The Benefits of an Ethnographic
Approach." Poster presented to Society for Applied Anthropology, March, Merida,
Mexico.


Instructional Technology Skills and Experience:

Interactive Online Lectures.  Washington University Web Workshop II: "Graduate 
Online Lecture Project."  Developed interactive pedagogical lectures using 
Flash 5 technology. Sample lecture is accessible through http://artsci.wustl.edu/GSAS/GOL/  

Choose "To the Lectures" then "Social Sciences" then "Erin Stiles."  Best viewed
with Flash 5 player, available at http://www.macromedia.com 
 
Web Design. Washington University Web Workshop I: "Designing Course Web 
Pages."  Learned basic web design. Sample course web page is at http://artsci.wustl.edu/~eestiles/classfv.htm


Activities:

--American Anthropological Association
--Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
--Society for Applied Anthropology
--Law and Society Association 
--Washington University Graduate Student Senate