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Ms. Szanto is currently a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. She graduated Summa cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2002, and received her MA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Before coming to the University of Toronto, she spent a year and a half in Syria researching popular Islamic practices. She is currently writing her dissertation on Twelver Shi‘i women’s piety in and around the shrine of Sayyida Zaynab.
She
can be reached at edith.szanto@utoronto.ca Ms. Szanto’s
publications include: “Pedagogies
of Piety: Shi‘i Children’s Books, Ethics and the Emergence of the Pious
Subject,” Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the
Study of Religion at the University of Toronto 1.1 (2009): 62-78. “Inter-Religious
Dialogue in Syria: Politics, Ethics and Miscommunication,” Political
Theology 9.1 (2008): 93-113. “A Scholar of Popular Contemporary Islam on the Quest for ‘Truth’ in Damascus,” Syrian Studies Association Newsletter 13.2 (2008): 8-9, 15. “Muharram in and around Sayyeda Zaynab,” Syrian Studies Association Newsletter 13.1 (2007): 4-5. |
