Nabil Echchaibi is Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of Media Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the 麻豆视频. His research is situated at the crossroad of important contemporary issues such as identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and reflecting modern religious subjectivities among Muslims in the Middle East and in diaspora. His work on diasporic media and the leveling of religious authority through the proliferation of Islamic media has appeared in various international publications such as Javnost, International Communication Gazette, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, and Media Development.
Dr. Echchaibi is currently working on his book,聽Formations of the Muslim Modern: Islam, Media and Alternative Modernity, which explores how Muslims engage, through their own media production, modernity as a source of both contention and identification. Using a multilayered analysis of six case studies of Muslim media in Cairo, Los Angeles, Dubai, San Francisco, London, and Austin, the book examines how transnational satellite television and digital media have become prime discursive and performative stages where young individuals and institutions debate and contest what it means to be 鈥渕odern鈥� in the Muslim context.
Dr. Echchaibi is also directing a project funded by the Social Science Research Council, which will compile a cultural history of Muslims in the Mountain region of the United States. The project will produce an interactive web resource and a documentary film. His book聽Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal聽was published by Lexington Books in 2011. His co-edited book聽International Blogging : Identity, Politics and Networked Publics聽was published in 2009 by Peter Lang Publishing. Prior to joining CU, Dr. Echchaibi taught at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland, where he helped set up the international communication department, the University of Louisville and Indiana University-Bloomington. A native of Morocco, he earned his BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and his MA and PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington.
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