Anna M. Gade is a scholar of Islam, religion, Southeast Asia and environmental studies and is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the

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. She is also currently serving as an Associate Dean of the same Institute where she teaches courses in Environmental Humanities,

Islamic Studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

, and the academic study of

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

and

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in the Religious Studies Program.

Biography

Gade was born in Berkeley, California and graduated from

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. She completed her B. A. in mathematics at Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore,

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. She holds a master's from the

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and received her Ph.D. with distinction in the history of religions from the

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, specializing in Islam. She has held teaching positions at different institutions in the

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and abroad including

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(Near Eastern Studies),

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(Music/Religion), Oberlin College (Religion),

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(Religious Studies), and in Languages and Cultures of Asia at

. Since the 1900s, much of her research has been conducted in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

Works

* Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004) * The Cham Rebellion: Survivors' Stories from the Villages, by Ysa Osman (Revising Editor, Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2006) * The Qur’an: An Introduction (Oneworld Publications, 2010) * Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (Columbia University Press, 2019)

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