Anna M. Gade
Anna M. Gade | |
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Born | Anna M. Gade Berkeley, California |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Berkeley High School (California), Swarthmore College, University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Anna M. Gade is a scholar of Islam, religion and ethics, Southeast Asia and environmental studies. She is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses in Environmental Humanities, Islamic Studies, and the academic study of religion and ethics in the Religious Studies Program.[1] Her current academic work focuses in the comparative field of environmental ethics, along with ongoing research programs on sustainability issues in the global south.
Biography
[edit]Gade graduated from Berkeley High School (California) and she completed her B. A. in mathematics at Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She holds a master's from the University of Chicago and received her Ph.D. with distinction in the history of religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School, specializing in Islam. She has held teaching positions at different institutions in the United States and abroad including Cornell University (Near Eastern Studies), Princeton University (Music/Religion), Oberlin College (Religion), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Religious Studies), and in Languages and Cultures of Asia at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since the 1900s, much of her research has been conducted in Indonesia, where she has also taught at Universitas Gadjah Mada and UIII (Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia).[2]
Works
[edit]- Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
- The Cham Rebellion: Survivors' Stories from the Villages, by Ysa Osman (Revising Editor, Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2006)
- The Qur’an: An Introduction (Oneworld Publications, 2010)
- Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (Columbia University Press, 2019)
- Environmental and Sustainablity Ethics (forth.)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Anna M. Gade". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
- ^ "Anna M. Gade". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
- Living people
- American religion academics
- American women non-fiction writers
- People from Berkeley, California
- Swarthmore College alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- University of Chicago Divinity School alumni
- Cornell University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- Oberlin College faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women