Dr. Leonard is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California in Irvine. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and comparative, ranging from the socio-economic history and anthropology of South Asia to Asian American Studies. Leonard's book, Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans, looks at the Punjabi immigrants who came to rural California in the early twentieth century and particularly at the families they formed with Hispanic women to explore transformations of ethnic identity in the United States. Her book, South Asian Americans, looks at Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghan, and Nepalese immigrants. Currently, Leonard is working on personal and national identities in the diaspora of Hyderabadi emigrants from India after 1948, a cross-national comparative project being carried out in Hyderabad, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, and the Gulf States of the Middle East. She has also completed a bibliographic essay on Muslims in the U.S., her most recent book, and is working on American Muslims and their place in America's changing religious landscape. 

This ends the series of public lectures on Muslim Diaspora Communities in Europe and North America offered by the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, together with the Department of Sociology for Spring Quarter 2005, .

For complete schedule go to this page.

Contact Information

• Steve Joudi, Center for Near Eastern Studies, 310-825-1455
• Vera Wheeler, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 310-825-4060

Cost : All lectures are free and open to the public.

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of Sociology