Monica Ringer
Lecturer
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Monica Ringer, Lecturer, Middle East
Monica Ringer studied with Hossein Ziai and Nikki Keddie at UCLA, receiving an M.A. in Islamic Studies (1992) and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle Eastern History (1998). Ringer is a past Executive Director for the International Society of Iranian Studies. She is the author of numerous articles, and two books, Education, Religion and the Discourse of Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran (2001) which explores nineteenth-century debates surrounding educational change, and Pious Citizens, Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (2011), which challenges the historiography of Middle Eastern modernity by insisting that we take seriously the theological shifts in religion which deliberately seek to form modern citizens in secularizing states. She is currently working on a book project concerning the Renan debates on Islam and civilization. Ringer teaches Middle Eastern history at Amherst College.
