American Examples Volume 2

Samah Choudhury is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Her research surrounds American Muslim humor as it relates to formations of race and racialization, Muslim masculinities, and secularism in the United States. She holds a doctorate in Islamic studies from UNC Chapel Hill.

Prea Persaud is lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she teaches classes on Hinduism, religion in the Americas (inclusive of the Caribbean), and issues concerning race, identity, and postcolonialism.

Michael J. Altman is director of the American Examples working group and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: AmericanRepresentations of India, 1721-1893.