Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
Professor of Anthropology
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Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (2005)
BA Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University (1995)
Dr. Jacqueline H. Fewkes is a Professor of Anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. She is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted anthropological research in many different parts of the world, including India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the United States.
Dr. Fewkes has written a number of articles on her research interests in topics as diverse as visual ethnography, transnational economic histories, development, leadership, and Islam. She is the author of the books Locating Maldivian Women's Mosques in Global Discourses (2020) and Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An Ethno-history of Ladakh (2008), as well as editor of the books Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah (coedited with Megan Adamson Sijapati, 2021), Reading the Intimate Past: Beyond the Public/Private in Ethnohistorical Contexts (co-edited with Rachel Corr, 2020), and Anthropological Perspectives on Religious Mobile Apps (2019).
Her work has been supported by grants and awards from organizations such as the Library of Congress, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, International Research and Exchanges Board, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Dr. Fewkes is currently finishing a book on the ethnohistory of mosque sites in the United States, which explores the relationship between sacred spaces, civil society, and history. Her newest research project is an anthropological exploration of the role of online communities and inter-Asian entertainment media in shaping new forms of identity for youth in the religious and ethnic minority communities of border India.
As a faculty member at the Honors College Dr. Fewkes uses experiential learning as a central guiding pedagogical philosophy. In addition to involving students in her fieldwork to provide them with hands-on research experience, Dr. Fewkes offers research opportunities in classes through the use of labs, field excursions, and project work. She has served as the faculty mentor for our Flagler Scholars, making service-learning a central part of the Flagler leadership experience. Dr. Fewkes has also brought students to national conferences to present papers/posters, serves as the anthropology club advisor, and regularly organizes speaker colloquiums at the college.
Email: jfewkes@fau.edu
Links:
American Mosques Research Project Blog