Department of Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director in the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Director of the Program on Islam and Civil Society.

Robert Hefner’s primary areas of interest include religion and modernity; Muslim politics and Islamic social movements; and social and political theory.  His regional focus is Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Indonesia and Malaysia.  His most recent books are Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (with Muhammad Qasim Zaman; 2006) and Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (2005).

For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/faculty/hefner/index.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Political Anthropology of the Modern World (CAS AN 371)
Topics in Muslim Societies and Islamic Civilizations (CAS AN 548)

Graduate:
Political Anthropology of the Modern World (GRS AN 771)