Emma Rifai
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Emma
Rifai
Iowa City, Iowa ·
emma-rifai@uiowa.edu
Education
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Ph.D., Religious Studies
Title: Embodied Covenants: Women, Weight Loss, and American Secularism
Advisors: Dr. Jenna Supp-Montgomerie and Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren
In Progress
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
M.A., Religious Studies
Comprehensive Exam Areas: American Religions; Critical Theory and Religion; and Religion, Food, and the Body
2018
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
The Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
2017
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
The Graduate Certificate in College Teaching
2017
The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
M.A., International Studies: Middle East Studies
Thesis: Fashioning Identities: New Relationships with Fashion and Modesty in Turkey
2011
Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota
B.A., Major in Sociology of Religion
Thesis: Unveiling New Orientalism: An Exploration in Images
2009
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
B.M., Major in Instrumental Music; Minor in Religion
Thesis: The Body’s Iron Cage and Its Relationship to the Protestant Ethic
2008
Honors & Awards
2019:
President and Mrs. Eugene Gilmore Scholarship, The University of Iowa
2019:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Fellowship, The University of Iowa
2019:
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, The University of Iowa
2018:
Rev. Louis Penningroth Scholarship, The University of Iowa
2018:
Theta Alpha Kappa, The University of Iowa
2017:
Alice Marguerite Blough Award, The University of Iowa
2016, 2018:
Graduate Student Senate Travel Grant, The University of Iowa
2016, 2017, 2018:
Department of Religious Studies Travel Grant, The University of Iowa
2010-2011:
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Washington
2009-2010:
Schwartz Fellowship, University of Washington
2009:
Alpha Kappa Delta, Minnesota State University Moorhead
2008:
Summa Cum Laude, Concordia College
2008:
Religion Honors, Concordia College
2006-2007:
Centennial Scholars Grant, Concordia College
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