Biography
Nareman Amin, Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department, received her PhD in Religion from Princeton University. From 2021 to 2022, she was the Andrea Mitchell Postdoctoral Fellow and Middle East Center Regional Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on religious authority, affect, political participation and Muslim youth culture. Her book project, “Is God for Revolution?: Youth and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt” examines how Muslim youth partaking in the 2011 Egyptian uprising affectively responded to the promise and ultimate demise of a revolution.
She taught courses on social movements and revolutions, Islamic history, youth culture and religion and social media at the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University and the American University in Cairo. She has an MA in Religion from Princeton University, an MA in Political Science from the University of South Florida, and a BA in History from the American University in Cairo.