| Louise Cainkar is a sociologist and
senior research fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s
Great Cities Institute. She is completing a study of the impact
of the September 11th attacks on the Arab/Muslim community in metropolitan
Chicago, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. She is also a recipient
of the Carnegie Corporation Scholar Award, with which she is studying
the Islamization of the Arab Community in Metropolitan Chicago.
Her work in this area also examines Islamic revival among second-generation
Arab immigrants and the relative importance of local, transnational,
and global factors. Dr. Cainkar presented her research on this topic
at the Institute for Diplomacy in Amman, Jordan in the Fall of 2004.
She is a consulting scholar on the Carnegie Corporation-funded,
Social Science Research Council project “Reframing the Challenge
of Migration and Security” for which she completed an empirically-based
study entitled “US Muslim Leaders and Activists Evaluate Post
9/11 Domestic Security Policies.” Professor Cainkar
has been actively engaged in dialogue with scholars of Muslims
in Europe, including meeting at Stanford University to discuss
French and US Approaches to Understanding Islam, a meeting of
Danish scholars at the Danish National Institute of Social Research,
and a forthcoming meeting sponsored by Italian Social Science
Research Council to discuss Islam in five European countries.
In the public sector, she recently completed a study of the capacity
of American Islamic institutions to provide services to low-income
Muslims for the Annie E. Casey Foundation and is conducting a
collaborative study with the Arab American Action Network of barriers
and resources affecting domestic violence intervention in Arab/Muslim
families. Professor Cainkar has published more than thirty articles
or chapters on Arabs and Muslims in the US and is regarded as
a national expert on immigrant Muslim communities, Arab immigrants,
and Arab Americans. Her forthcoming book on the Arab/Muslim experience
in the US after September 11th is tentatively titled Homeland
Insecurity. She has also worked as a grant maker to immigrant
community organizations, taught in UIC's Sociology Department,
and conducted research on migration within the Middle East. Her
most recent publication is: “The Impact of 9/11 on Muslims
and Arabs in the United States,” in John Tirman, ed., The
Maze of Fear: Security & Migration After September 11th (New
York; The New Press). 2004.
Recent Publications
"The Impact of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs in the United States,"
in John Tirman, ed., The Maze of Fear: Security & Migration
After September 11th (New York; The New Press) Spring, 2004.
Strategies for What Matters Most: Low-Income Muslim Communities
in the US Report for the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore:
Annie E. Casey Foundation). 2004; in press.
"Migration as a Method of Coping with Turbulence among Palestinians"
Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Special Issue on the Middle
East, Winter. 2004.
"A Fervor for Muslims: Special Registration" Journal
of Islamic Law and Culture. Volume 7, #2. 2003.
"Targeting Muslims, at Ashcroft's Discretion" Middle
East Report On-Line (Washington DC: MERIP) March 14, 2003;
"No Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion After September
11" Middle East Report (Washington DC: MERIP) Fall. Volume
224. 2003; |
