Katherine P. Ewing | Scholars@Duke

Katherine P. Ewing
Professor Emerita

Katherine Pratt Ewing, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University.
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Until 2010, she was Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University, where she served as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies. In 2010-2011 she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison before moving to Columbia’s Religion Department in 2011. Her research ranges from debates among Muslims about the proper practice of Islam in the modern world to sexualities, gender, and the body in South Asia. She has done ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan, Turkey and India, and among Muslims in Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States.

Professor Ewing received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1980 and took postdoctoral training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the L. Bryce Boyer Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (1990), a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin (1999), a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar grant (2000-2002), and a Residential Fellowship as Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2006-7). Her books include Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam (1997), Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin (2008), and the edited volumes Shariat and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam (1988) and Being and Belonging: Muslim Communities in the US since 9/11 (2008).

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emerita, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010

Contact Information

Friedl Building 212, Cultual Anthropology Dept, Durham, NC 27708
Columbia University, Departmen, 80 Claremont Ave., Room 103 MC, New York, NY 10027
katherine.ewing@duke.edu (212) 851-9280

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1980
- M.A., Boston University 1973
- B.A., Tufts University 1971
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2010
- Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2008
- Associate Professor of Religion, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2004
- Acting Chair, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000
- Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1997
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 1991
Research
Selected Grants
- Teaching South Asia Through Material Objects and Performance Events awarded by Department of Education 2008 - 2009
- The Milli Gorus and the Diyanet: Competing Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between "Church and State" in Europe awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001 - 2002
- "Secularist Turkey's Official Islam and the Shaping of Turkish Migrant Religious and Political Identies in Germany awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1999 - 2000
- Islamic Mysticism in Modern Turkey awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1993
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Ewing, Katherine Pratt. Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin. Stanford University Press, 2008.
  - Ewing, K. P. Arguing Sainthood: Islam, Modernity and Psychoanalysis. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997.
- Academic Articles
  - Ewing, K. P. “Idiosyncrasy and the problem of shared understandings: The case of a Pakistani orphan,” January 1, 2019, 215–48. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315792057-10.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “Comment on Rebecca J. Lester’s "Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care in an American Eating Disorder Clinic.".” Current Anthropology 50 (2009).
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject by Sherry B. Ortner.” American Anthropologist 110 (2008).
  - Ewing, K. P. “Between cinema and social work: Diasporic Turkish women and the (dis)pleasures of hybridity.” Cultural Anthropology 21, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 265–94. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.2006.21.2.265.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “Revealing and Concealing: Interpersonal Dynamics and the Negotiation of Identity, with comments by Dorinne Kondo and Sidney Mintz, and author response.” Ethos 34 (February 2006): 89–131.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Misrecognition of a Modern Islamist Organization: Germany Faces "Fundamentalism".” Edited by Carl Ernst and Richard Martin, 2006.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Cultivating a Wholesome Body: Islam in the German Gym Class.” Edited by Sami Swad, 2006.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Identity Politics: Turkey” 2 (2005): 289–91.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult, by Pnina Werbner.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2005): 626–27.
  - Ewing, K. “Women, Gender and Childhood: Social Practices, Pre-Modern and Modern: United States,” 2005.
  - Ewing, K. P. “"Review of Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity by Michal E. Meeker and Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey by Pael Navaro-Yashin.".” American Anthropologist 106 (2004).
  - Ewing, K. P. “Diasporic dreaming, identity, and self-constitution,” December 1, 2003, 43–60.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Between Turkey and Germany: Living Islam in the Diaspora.” Edited by Güven Guzeldere and Sibel Irzik. South Atlantic Quarterly 102 (2003): 405–31.
  - Özdemir, Adil, and Kenneth Frank. “Visible Islam in Modern Turkey.” International Journal of Turkish Studies, 2002.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Legislating religious freedom: Muslim challenges to the relationship between "church" and "state" in Germany and France.” Daedalus 129, no. 4 (September 1, 2000): 31–54.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Dream as symptom, dream as myth: A cross-cultural perspective on dream narratives.” Sleep and Hypnosis 2, no. 4 (January 1, 2000): 152–59.
  - Ewing, Katherine Pratt. “Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries: Metaphors for Negotiating Multiple Identities.” Ethos 26, no. 2 (June 1998): 262–67. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1998.26.2.262.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Nandy, Ashis. The Savage Freud and other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves.” Journal of Asian Studies, 1997.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Rhetorics of Self-Making, edited by Debbora Battaglia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture, by Gilbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller.” American Ethnologist 21 (1994): 635–36.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Dreams from a Saint: Anthropological Atheism and the Temptation to Believe.” American Anthropologist 96, no. 3 (January 1, 1994): 571–83. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1994.96.3.02a00080.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives, by Rank S. Kessel, Pamela M. Cole, and Dale L. Johnsonm eds,.” American Anthropologist 95 (1993): 1067–68.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Is Psychoanalysis Relevant for Anthropology?” Edited by T. Schwartz, G. White, and C. Lutz, 1992, 251–68.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society, by David K. Jordan and Marc J. Swartz, eds.” Journal of Anthropologist Research 48 (1992): 71–75.
  - EWING, K. P. “Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family.” Ethos 19, no. 2 (January 1, 1991): 131–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1991.19.2.02a00010.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India, by Owen Lynch, ed.” Journal of Asian Studies 50 (1991): 976–78.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Notes on Love in a Tamil Family by Margaret Trawick.” American Anthropologist 94 (1991): 237–38.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford Spiro, edited by Benjamin Kilborne and L.L. Langness.” The Psychoanalysis Quarterly, 1991.
  - EWING, K. P. “The Illusion of Wholeness: Culture, Self and the Experience of Inconsistency.” Ethos 18, no. 3 (January 1, 1990): 251–78. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1990.18.3.02a00020.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “The Dream of Spiritual Initiation and the Organization of Self Representations among Pakistani Sufis.” American Ethnologist 17, no. 1 (1990): 56–74.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes by Melford Spiro.” Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology, 1987.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Review of The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan, edited by Merry I. White and Susan Pollak.” Journal of Asian Studies 47 (1987): 630–31.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Clinical Psychoanalysis as an Ethnographic Tool.” Ethos 15, no. 1 (1987): 16–39.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Sufi as Saint, Curer, an Exorcist in Modern Pakistan.” Contributions to Asian Studies 18 (1984): 106–14.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Politics of Sufism: Redefining the Saints of Pakistan.” Journal of Asian Studies 42 (1983): 251–65.
- Book Sections
  - Ewing, K. P. ““Anthropology and the Pakistani National Imaginary.” Naveed Khan, ed. New Delhi: Routledge.” edited by Naveeda Khan. New Delhi: Routledge., 2009.
  - Ewing, K. P., and M. Hoyler. “Being Muslim and American: South Asian Muslim youth and the war on terror.” In Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since 9/11, 80–103, 2008.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Emine: Muslim University Student in Berlin.” edited by Frances Trix, John Walbridge, and Linda Walbridge. McGraw Hill, 2008.
  - Ewing, K. P. ““Stigmatisierte Männlichkeit: Muslimische Geschlechterbeziehungen und kulturelle Staatsbürgerschaft in Europa.” x, eds. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag.” edited by Lydia Potts and Jan Kühnemund. transcript Verlag, 2008.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Immigrant Identities and Emotion.” In A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change, 225–40, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996409.ch13.
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  - Ewing, K. P. “"The Muslim Child".” edited by Richard Shweder, 2007.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Iktidar, Psikopatoloji ve Kimlik Müzakeresi: Psikanaliz ve Antropolojnin Kesi_me Hatt_nda Baz_ Güncel Meseleler (Power, Psychopathology and the Negotiation of Identity: Current Issues at the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Anthropology".” edited by Kemal Sayar. Istanbul: Metis Yay_nlar_, 2003.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Migration, Identity Negotiation and Self Experience.” edited by Jonathan Friedman and Shalini Randeria, 117–40. London: Taurus, 2003.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Sufi and the Mullah: Islam and Local Culture in Pakistan.” edited by Charles Kennedy, 169–98. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Images of Order and Authority: Shifting Identites and Legal Consciousness in a Runaway Immigrant Daughter.” edited by Jeanette Mageo and Bruce Knauft, 93–113. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Özne, Arzu ve Farkina Vari_ (Seval Y _Imaz, trans.).” edited by Kemal Sayar, 173–87. Istanbul: Insan Yay_nlar_, 2000.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Violence of Non-Recognition: Becoming a ’Conscious’ Muslim Woman in Turkey.” edited by Antonius Robben and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, 248–71. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  - Ewing, K. P. “A Majzub and his Mother: The Place of Sainthood in a Family’s Emotional Memory.” edited by Pnina Werbner and Helene Basu, 160–83. London: Routledge, 1998.
  - Ewing, K. P. “A Perspective on the Problem of Moral Principles in Tension.” edited by K. Ewing, 1–22. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Pir.” edited by John L. Esposito. Oxford University Press, 1994.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Modern Businessman and the Pakistani Saint: The Interpenetration of Worlds.” edited by Grace M. Smith and Carl Ernst, 69–84. Istanbul: Editions Isis, 1993.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Malangs of the Punjab: Intoxication or Adab as the Path to God?” edited by Barbara Metcalf, 357–71. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  - Ewing, K. P. “The Messengers of the 1890 Ghost Dance.” edited by David A. Halperin, 73–92. Boston: PSG Publishing Company, 1983.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Sufis and Adepts: Islamic and Hindu Sources of Spiritual Power among Punjabi Muslims and Christian Sweepers.” edited by Steven Pastner and Louis Flam. Ithaca: Cornell University South Asia Monograph Series, 1982.
- Other Articles
  - Ewing, K. P. “Conversation with Katherine Pratt Ewing.” Edited by Anthony Molino. Wesleylan University Press., 2004.
  - Ewing, K. P. “CA Comment on "Debating Self, Identity, and Culture in Anthropology," by Martin Sokefeld.” Current Anthropology, 1999.
  - Ewing, K. P. “Anthropological Research in Pakistan: A Bibliography.” American Institute of Pakistan, Occasional Papers, 1997.
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Education, Training, & Certifications

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Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

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