Katherine Pratt Ewing has been Professor of Religion at Columbia University since 2011. She is also Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University, where she was on the faculty for twenty years. Before moving to Columbia, she spent a year as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan, Turkey and India, and among Muslims in Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States. Her research has focused on debates among Muslims about the proper practice of Islam in the modern world, the place of Muslims within the German national imaginary, and sexualities, gender, and the body in South Asia. She is the author of articles including “Naming our sexualities: Secular Constraints, Muslim Freedoms” (Focaal, 2011) and “From German Bus Stop to Academy Award Nomination: The Honor Killing as Simulacrum.” Her books include Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam (1997), Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin (2008), and the edited volumes Shariat and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam (1988) and Being and Belonging: Muslim Communities in the US since 9/11 (2008).