Intellectual Vitality

Through annual Academic and Teaching Fellowships, the Markaz opens opportunities for students to advance the study of Islam and Muslims and expand campus discourse by engaging their peers.

Our Academic Fellows, housed within the Center for South Asia, the Abbasi Program for Islamic Studies, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), organize speaking events to engage topics such as “Race and Law in the Malay Archipelago,” “Islamic Perspectives on Abolition,” and “Islam in Eastern Europe” under the guidance of a faculty advisor. 

The center offers two courses for students: “Interrogating Islamophobia” and “Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the US”, co-taught by Director Abiya Ahmed and our undergraduate teaching fellow. The Teaching Fellow contributes to public discourse around Islam, Muslims, and Islamophobia at Stanford, by exploring its conceptual roots, contemporary manifestations, and counter efforts, within the course.