The Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary encyclopedia project focused on women and
Islamic cultures. We are currently in the process of inviting interested
scholars, including graduate students, to be possible contributors.
Please, if you are interested in being included in the author database,
visit our website at: http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic/ and follow the
link to the contributor template. Thank you for your interest and
contribution!
The EWIC Scholars Database is an invaluable listing of scholars from
all
over the world and from all disciplines whose work focuses on women,
gender, and Islamic cultures. Based on the authors database for the
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, this free on-line
publication
offers a searchable database connecting scholars, students, planners,
and
activists with each other and with NGO's, governmental agencies, and
potential employers seeking researchers whose work specifically covers
issues on women and gender related to Islamic cultures. The online
database, funded by a grant from the International Development Research
Center (Ottawa), is published at http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic.
We invite experts including graduate students to fill out the template for this free online resource. It is
user-friendly and easy to complete.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures is a 6-volume, 2,000,000
word state of the art compendium offering 1,246 articles by 906 authors
from all disciplines, covering the full span of topics for which we
could
find research on women and Islamic cultures all over the world.
Published
by Brill, Leiden, the print edition of EWIC is now complete and a new
Editorial Board is being comprised to launch EWIC On-Line, a continually
updated and innovative publication of new research. The print edition
was
lead by a distinguished team of scholars (Suad Joseph, General Editor;
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Julie Peteet, Seteney Shami, Jacqueline Siapno, and
Jane Smith Associate Editors; and Alice Horner, Assistant Editor) and
EWIC On Line, will continue this level of scholarship with its new
Editorial team (Suad Joseph, General Editor; Hoda Elsadda, Shahla Haeri,
Martina Rieker, Therese Saliba as the first phase Associate Editors).
The publication of the EWIC Scholars Database online for free access,
will make this invaluable resource available to all those interested in
our fields of work.
Please visit our website at
http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic/index.htm which includes a link to our
scholars template as well as other EWIC resources. We look forward to
receiving your response and hope you will assist us in this important
project of information sharing and network building.
