Ellen McLarney
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
- Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
Contact Information
- 2204ERWIN Road Room 226, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
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ellenmc@duke.edu
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Building Bridges: Muslims in America
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Scholarship, Advocacy & Activism
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Columbia University 2004
- M.A., Columbia University 1998
- B.A., Brown University 1992
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Office of Global Affairs 2019 - 2022
- Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center 2021 - 2022
- Interim Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Office of Global Affairs 2019 - 2021
- Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2016
- Director of Undergraduate Students in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2010
- Assistant Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2007
- Lecturer, University, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2004
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Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
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Director, Middle East and Islam in Global Contexts Focus Cluster, 2018-20
Director, Geopolitics and Culture Focus Cluster, 2021-23
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Director, Middle East and Islam in Global Contexts Focus Cluster, 2018-20
- Recognition
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In the News
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MAR 2, 2021 -
MAY 10, 2016 The Washington Post -
JUL 21, 2015 Duke Today -
JUL 1, 2015 The Washington Post -
APR 18, 2014 -
APR 15, 2014 Duke Today -
AUG 23, 2013 The State of Things -
AUG 22, 2013 WUNC Radio
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
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- Research
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: Black Muslims & Racial Justice in the U.S. South awarded by Duke Office of the Provost 2021
- Building Bridges: Black Muslims in America awarded by Doris Duke Foundation 2021 - 2023
- Black Muslim Atlantic awarded by Trent Foundation 2020
- Building Bridges: Muslims in America awarded by Duke Performances 2018
- David Paletz Innovative Course Enhancement Grant awarded by Duke University 2018
- Fulbright Scholar Award awarded by Fulbright 2018
- Center for Faculty Development and Diversity awarded by Duke University 2017
- Arts and Sciences Research Grant awarded by Duke University 2014
- Art of Democratic Revolution awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2013 - 2014
- Islamic Media: Technologies of the Sacred awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2013 - 2014
- Hurford Family Fellow awarded by National Humanities Center 2011
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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McLarney, E. A. Soft force: Women in Egypt's Islamic awakening, 2015.
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Academic Articles
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McLarney, Ellen. “Malcolm X's Gospel.” Black Perspectives, March 28, 2022.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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McLarney, Ellen. “The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb. Hoda El Shakry (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020). Pp. 235. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9780823286355.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (February 2022): 190–91. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743821001136.Full Text
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McLarney, Ellen. “Agency versus Insurgency.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 256–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949464.Full Text
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LARNEY, E. M., and N. Mottahedeh. “Images of an undocumented revolution: Interview with claudine mulard.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 235–43. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238272.Full Text
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McLARNEY, E., and N. MOTTAHEDEH. “Soundscapes of the iranian revolution.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 227–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238258.Full Text
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McLARNEY, E. “Cover art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 16, no. 3 (January 1, 2020): 329–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637452.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “Beyoncé's soft power: Poetics and politics of an afro-diasporic aesthetics.” Camera Obscura 34, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7584892.Full Text Open Access Copy
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McLarney, E. “James baldwin and the power of black muslim language.” Social Text 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 51–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7286264.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Bayoumi, S., S. Hafez, and E. McLarney. “From the new editorial team.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273664.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “Cover art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 15, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 235–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7491143.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “Cover art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 116. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273857.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Adab.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 25–46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743815001452.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “Women’s Rights in the Egyptian Constitution: (Neo)Liberalism’s Family Values.” Jadaliyya, May 2013.
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McLarney, Ellen. “Review: Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity by Samira Haj.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 44, no. 1 (February 2012): 177–79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743811001401.Full Text Link to Item
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “American Freedom and Islamic Fascism: Ideology in the Hall of Mirrors.” Theory and Event 14, no. 3 (September 2011).Open Access Copy
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “The Islamic Public Sphere and the Discipline of Adab.” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 43, no. 3 (2011): 429–49.Open Access Copy
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McLarney, E. A., and B Gokariksel co-authors. “Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism, and the Islamic Culture Industry.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, October 2010.Open Access Copy
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McLarney, E. “The private is political: Women and family in intellectual Islam.” Feminist Theory 11, no. 2 (August 6, 2010): 129–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700110366805.Full Text Open Access Copy
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McLarney, E. A., and B. Gokariksel. “Marketing Muslim Women, Special Issue.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, 2010.
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 5, no. 1 (December 2009).Open Access Copy
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McLarney, Ellen. “Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan,” December 2009.Open Access Copy
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McLarney, E. “The socialist romance of the postcolonial Arabic novel.” Research in African Literatures 40, no. 3 (September 1, 2009): 186–205. https://doi.org/10.2979/RAL.2009.40.3.186.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “"Empire of the machine": Oil in the Arabic Novel.” Boundary 2 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2009): 177–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2009-010.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Roy, Olivier. “Secularism Confronts Islam.” Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin, 2009.
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Mallah, Majd al-, ed. “Latifah al-Zayyat,” 2008.
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “Literacy and the Literary: Reading and Speaking Arabic.” Adfl Bulletin 37, no. 1 (October 2005).
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Joseph, Suad, ed. “Women, Gender, and Love: Modern Discourses: Arab States” 3 (2005).
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “The Politics of Driss Chraibi’s Le passé simple.” Journal of North African Studies 8, no. 2 (July 2003).
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McLarney E, Olivier. “Review: The House on Arnus Square by Samar Attar.” Journal of Arabic Literature 34 (2003).
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McLarney, E. “Politics of Le passé simple.” Journal of North African Studies 8, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629380308718505.Full Text
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McLarney, E. “The 'House on Arnus Street'.” Journal of Arabic Literature 34, no. 3 (2003): 289–93.Link to Item
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McLarney, E, Olivier. “Review: Under the Naked Sky by Denis Johnson-Davies.” Journal of Arabic Literature 33 (2002).
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “Unlocking the Female in Ahlem Mosteghanemi.” Journal of Arabic Literature 33, no. 1 (2002).
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “The Algerian Personal Statute: A French Legacy.” Islamic Quarterly 41, no. 3 (1997).
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Book Sections
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McLarney, E. “Reviving Qasim Amin, Redeeming Women’s Liberation.” In Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, 262–84, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108147781.016.Full Text
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McLarney, Ellen. “The Revival of Women’s Liberation.” In Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, edited by Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Open Access Copy
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McLarney, Ellen. “Women’s Rights and Equality: Egyptian Constitutional Law.” In Women’s Movements in Post-Arab Spring North Africa, edited by Fatima Sadiqi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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McLarney, E. “Latifah al-Zayyat.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th-Century Arabic Literature, edited by Majd al-Mallah. Thompson-Gale, 2008.
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McLarney, E. “Women, Gender, and Love: Modern Discourses: Arab States.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, edited by Suad Joseph, Vol. 3. Brill, 2005.
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Other Articles
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McLarney, E. “Egypt on the Brink.” The State of Things. WUNC Radio, August 21, 2013.
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. “Islam in Vogue: Muslim Women in the Media.” “Imagining Ourselves.” International Museum of Women, 2007.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AMES 319S: Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain 2023
- AMES 328S: Literary Islam 2023
- JEWISHST 319S: Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain 2023
- LIT 328S: Literary Islam 2023
- MEDREN 352S: Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain 2023
- RELIGION 214S: Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain 2023
- RELIGION 326S: Literary Islam 2023
- ROMST 319S: Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain 2023
- AAAS 295S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- AMES 295S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- AMES 493: Research Independent Study 2022
- GSF 296S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- ICS 222S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- RELIGION 295S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- RIGHTS 295S: Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture 2022
- AMES 138: Scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 2021
- AMES 206FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- AMES 329S: Islamic Media 2021
- AMES 493: Research Independent Study 2021
- AMES 720: Professionalization Workshop in Middle East Studies 2021
- FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2021
- ICS 116FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- ICS 331S: Islamic Media 2021
- JEWISHST 156: Scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 2021
- JEWISHST 206FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- MEDREN 191FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- RELIGION 156: Scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 2021
- RELIGION 206FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- RELIGION 379S: Islamic Media 2021
- ROMST 204FS: Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe 2021
- VMS 342S: Islamic Media 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Service to the Profession
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