Tobin, Sarah A.

(Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany) Sarah A. Tobin, Ph.D., is a Carnegie Visiting Scholar and the Assistant Director of the Boston Consortium for Arab regional studies at Northeastern University. She is an anthropologist with expertise in Islam, economic anthropology, and gender in the Middle East. Her work explores transformations in religious and economic life, identity construction, and personal piety at the intersections with gender, Islamic authority and normative Islam, public ethics, and Islamic authenticity. Ethnographically, her work focuses on Islamic piety in the economy, especially Islamic Banking and Finance, in contested fields of consumption, and in the Arab Spring. Most recently, Dr. Tobin published “Being Middle Class and Anti-Revolution: The Case of Jordan.” in Middle East Policy in March 2012 and “Ramadan Blues” in the digest of Middle East studies in 2012. Her current book manuscript, Everyday Piety: Islam and the Economy in Amman, Jordan is under contract at Cornell University Press.