CONFERENCES AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France: May-June 2007. Gave a series of four seminars on Islam in South Asia.

• Islamic Center for Education and Research, California: June 2005. Presented paper on "Ahmad Riza Khan: His Scholarship, Spirituality, and Love of the Prophet."

• International Workshop, Islamic Education and Learning in South Asia,  University of Erfurt, Germany: May 2005. Presented paper on "Ahl-e Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-e Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur." (To be published.)

• Rockefeller Institute conference on "South Asian Islam and the Greater Muslim World," Chapel Hill, NC: May 1996. Presented unpublished paper on "Family and Genealogy in the Ahl-e Sunnat ("Barelwi") Movement in the Context of Tajdid."

• Social Science Research Council Conference on "The Making of a Fatwa,"  Granada, Spain: January 1990. Presented paper on "Are Wahhabis Kafirs? Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Sword of the Haramayn." (Subsequently published.)

• Social Science Research Council (New York)'s Committee on the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies (jointly with the American Council of Learned Societies). Workshop on current graduate research on Muslim societies in different parts of the world, at Tangier, Morocco: June 1987. 

ACADEMIC EDITOR

Occasional freelance copy editor for New York University Press, New York. I handled academic manuscripts in a variety of subject areas, including sociology, history, and politics/current affairs. This activity enabled me to read outside my field, providing a broader context for my research interests.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Association of Asian Studies (AAS)

• Former Treasurer, ISOSA (Independent Scholars of South Asia), an organization affiliated with the American Association of Indian Studies (AIIS) in Chicago

LANGUAGES

• French, Spanish, Hindi and Urdu: Spoken and written

• Arabic: One year of study