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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 2003-04
Carnegie Corporation Scholar Award, with which she is studying the
Islamicization of the Arab Community in Metropolitan Chicago. Her
work in this arena examines Islamic revival among second
generation
Arab immigrants and the relative importance of local and
global factors. She is a consulting scholar on the Carnegie
Corporation-funded, Social Science Research Council project
“Reframing the Challenge of Migration and Security.” 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 Arab immigrants, Arab Americans, and immigrant
Muslim communities. 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 article 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.
Contact Information:
Louise Cainkar, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar
Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois-Chicago
412 S. Peoria
Mail Code 107
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312-355-1224
Fax: 312-996-8933
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