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Gil Anidjar’s latest book, On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal, will be published in November by Columbia University Press. The Press is featuring the book on its website, in a blog post by Professor Anidjar, that picks up on some of the key themes in the book. 

Aziza Shanazarova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, has a new book out with Cambridge University Press, Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World. Through revealing the fascinating story of the Sufi master Aghā-yi Buzurg and her path to becoming the “Great Lady” in sixteenth-century Bukhara, Professor Shanazarova invites readers into the little-known world of female religious authority in early modern Islamic Central Asia, revealing a far more multifaceted gender history than previously supposed.

Columbia University Department of Religion Doctoral Student Nanea Renteria has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for her project "Two Spirits: Gender, Oral History, and the Peyote Way." 

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