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Vivienne Angeles, Ph.D.
Vivienne Angeles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
McShain 200
215.951.1337
angeles@lasalle.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Temple University, 1987
  • M.A., Temple University, 1979, Kansas State University, 1971
  • B.A., University of the Philippines, 1964

Areas of  Interest

  • Islam in America
  • Muslim movements in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
  • Visual expressions of Islam in Southeast Asia
  • Issues in religion, gender, and migration
  • Religion, identity, and globalization 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • Kolig, Erich, Vivienne SM Angeles and Sam Wong, eds. Identity in Crossroad Civilizations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia. Amsterdam University Press, 2009 (also co-author of the introductory essay, “Crossroad Civilizations and Bricolage Identities” and author of “Visual Expressions of Islam in the Philippines.”  195-218).
  • “Adam,”  “Abu Sufyan,”  “Moro Islamic Liberation Front,”   “Moro National Liberation Front,” “Philippines,” in John Esposito, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • "Contested Vision of an Islamic State in Southern Philippines," in Santosh Saha and Thomas K. Carr, eds.  Islamic, Hindu and Christian Fundamentalism: Public Policy in Global Perspectives.  New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. 79-110.
  • Being Muslimah and being Fashionable in Malaysia,” International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 6), August 7, 2009 ,Daejon, South Korea.
  • “Labor Migration and the Balik- Islam Movement in the Philippines,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 1, 2008, Chicago, Illinois.