Asma Barlas

Professor Emerita, Politics
School: School of Humanities and Sciences

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

* Ithaca College Faculty Excellence Award, 2019.

* Ithaca College Summer Research Grants: 2018, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1997, 1995, 1993; Small Grants: 1995-2001; 1992-93.

* State University of New York (SUNY) award to teach in the NYI-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013.

* Spinoza Chair in Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Spring, 2008.

* Fellowship, International Center for Islam and Pluralism (ICIP), Jakarta, Indonesia. June 16-July 3, 2005.

* Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (University of Texas Press, 2002; 2019) nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, 2019; 2009; 2005.

* Woman of Distinction, New York State, District: John R. Kuhl, Jr., 2003.

* Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1998-99, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS).

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Pre-Ithaca College

* Ph.D. Dissertation passed with distinction (Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver); nominated for the Gabriel Almond Award in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Associ­ation, 1990.  GPA: 4.0

* International Fellowship for Ph.D., American Association of University Women (AAUW), 1989.

* Teaching Grant, Ford Foundation, Graduate School of International Studies (now the Josef Korbel School) University of Denver, 1988.

* Ben Cherrington Fellowship, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1985-86.

* Robert Anderson Fellowship, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1984.

* Reham al-Farra Journalists Fellowship, United Nations, New York, 1983.

* First Position, Seventh Foreign Service Officers Training Course in International Relations and Diplomacy, Administrative Staff College, Pakistan, 1976.

* First Position in the University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 1971.

* Department of Journalism Fellowship, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 1969-71.