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Anthropology Celebrates Another Guggenheim Recipient

John Bowen
John Bowen, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow

For the second consecutive year, a faculty member in the Washington University Department of Anthropology has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. John Bowen, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, was among the 181 Guggenheim Fellows chosen in 2012 from nearly 3,000 scholars, artists, and scientists in the United States and Canada.

Bowen's research focuses on comparative social studies of Islam across the world, specifically on issues of law, pluralism, and religion as they pertain to recent efforts to address Islamic norms and civil law. He has conducted ethnographic research in France, England, and Indonesia. He is continuing research for his book, Shariah and Law in Britain, in England during the year of his fellowship.