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Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities (Religious Studies) & Director of SLA, UW-Madison. Ethnographer of language, gender, & sexuality in Muslim communities. Swahili-speaker 🇹🇿 Kung-fu-learner 🥋 Meditator 🧘📿 https://bookshop.org/shop/kd_thompson
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🎉 Congratulations to AfAA member Jennifer Coffman, recipient of the 2025 AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Anthropology! Nominated by the AfAA board, Coffman is recognized for her outstanding dedication to undergraduate education #AAA2025 #AfAA

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“I don’t know if we’ll make it but we might as well try.” — Leah Piepzna- Samarasinha

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We should all be practicing

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Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim aims to raise the profile of IO studies, bringing research on the societies, arts, and cultures of the basin to a wide audience. Issue 3:1 is now available: buff.ly/KU3faVN Learn more and subscribe: buff.ly/RmuAnVw

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Whatever happens, we must care for each other.

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AAR Pride Month book recommendations aarweb.org/news/pride-m...

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Eid al-Adha Mubarak to you all. May this Eid bless our families with peace, unity, and joy. May it also bring this world closer to justice, freedom, and healing. Our hearts remain with those suffering and with nations striving for liberation.

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Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating today and tomorrow. ❤️

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“At 5: 18 here every morning, one loud bird complains about too much silence. The day is here, the day is here, it announces. No other birds join it, so it goes back to being quiet. Hearing it helps me. Each morning I’m glad of silence, but also glad of the bird” — The Asking, Jane Hirshfield

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“Today, when I could do nothing, I saved an ant.” — The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield

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Sub-Saharan Islamic Archives and African Philosophy Research Talk with Ousmane Kane Read the full summary: www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/... #africanphilosophy #philosophy #IslamicStudies #senegal #nigeria #Subsaharanafrica

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I feel seen.

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don’t despair of this falling world, not yet  didn’t it give you the asking — Jane Hirshfield

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Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done: newspaper deliverer florist babysitter Dunkin Donuts server college dining hall server, dishwasher, custodian bookseller hostess waitress receptionist TA professor I feel certain I'm forgetting something.

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“Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.” I was honored to meet Ngugi ~20 years ago, surprising him by speaking Swahili. Mungu amlaze peponi.

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Job at the University of Edinburgh in Religious Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE978/t...

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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...

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Woke up to good news: Later this summer I'll join the 2025 Summer Humanities Grant Writing Workshop at UW-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities, where I'll be working on proposals to fund the writing of my next book, tentatively titled, "Women, Voice, & Muslim Radio in Tanzania." 😊

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Registration is now open for our August retreat with Devin Berry at Holy Wisdom. madisonmeditation.org/retreats/dev...

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“there are no whole truths, there are only pertinent truths—and pertinence, you must agree, is always a matter of perspective.” — The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Eleanor Catton

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After coffee, my favorite beverage

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Wishful thinking, Duo!

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Our first-ever film review is live! 🎥 In Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler uses vampires, blues & theology to rethink sin & salvation in the Black South. Michael B. Jordan stuns as twin brothers. Read the full review: shorturl.at/lPWEx #SinnersFilm #FilmReview #BlackTheology

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My finch and I have a common interest.

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Items being sold by streethawkers through car windows in Dar es Salaam: chips, harmonicas, grapes, cashews, towels, …

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My second child is a teenager! 😱

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Congratulations to this year's Religious Studies graduates!

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good day for a picnic with friends

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“it is only kindness that makes sense anymore” — Naomi Shihab Nye

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Grades are submitted!

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Pope Kupha VII

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The #ReligiousStudies blue-book-marginalia kitties strike again

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My Islam students enjoyed Su'ad Abdul Khabeer's chapter on Black Muslim dandies this semester, so I'm watching the Met Gala on mute while they write their final exam. Too bad they're at the same time.

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