Name:	Garbi Schmidt
	Academic Title:	PhD, Islamic Studies
	Position:	Senior Researcher, program director ethnic minorities program
	Office:	Danish National Institute of Social Research
	Address:	Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052 Copenhagen K
	Phone:	+45 33 48 08 96
	Email:	gs@sfi.dk
	Fax:	+45 33 48 08 33

Affiliation with AMID
AMID Steering Committee Member
Responsible for two AMID research projects: Social Activism Among Young Muslims in Denmark... and MiMa.

Curriculum Vitae:
1994: Accepted as doctoral student at the Section of Islamic Studies, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, the University of Lund, Sweden.

1995-96: Fulbright student (American Studies Award, Ph.D. level) at the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, U.S.A.. Collects anthropological and sociological data for a dissertation on the immigrant Sunni Muslim communities in the city.

1996-97: Visiting Student at the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, U.S.A.. Continues data collecting. The stay is funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities and the Danish Research Academy.

1997-98: One-year position at the Section of Islamic Studies, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, at the University of Lund, Sweden, to finish the dissertation work. The position is funded by the Swedish National Bank. The defense of the Ph.D. thesis (published October 28, 1998) takes place on November 23, 1998.

1999-2000: Employed as External Lecturer at the Department of History of Religions, the University of Copenhagen and the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Odense.

1999-: Employed as researcher at the National Danish Institute of Social Research, Ethnic Minority Program.

2000: Guest researcher, Teologiska Institutionen, University of Uppsala (September-November).

2001: Ass. Researcher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Irvine (January-March). Guest Researcher, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, USA (October-November).

Early publications:

(1995) "Cybermuslimer," (CyberMuslims) in Tidskrift för Mellanöstern Studier, no. 1:85-100.

(1996b) "Allah på Internet," (Allah on the Internet) in Chaos: Dansk tidskrift for religionsvidenskabelige studier, nr. 26:51-74.

(1998a) "Religion i den tredje verkligheten," ((Religion in the Third Dimension) in Röster, ed. Leif Stenberg and Catharina Raudvere. Stockholm: Symposium.

(1998b) American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago. Lund Series in the Study of Religions, Vol. 8. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. Ph. D. Dissertation.

(1999a): "Sveriges Förenade CyberMuslimer - Blå-gul islam på Internet." (The United CyberMuslim Community of Sweden - Blue and Yellow Islam on the Internet) in Blågul Islam?, Eds. David Westerlund og Ingvar Svanberg. Nora: Nye Doxa:107-122.

Projects and research interests
AMID research project

Currently working on the following projects:

1. Muslim youth activism in three Western countries (Denmark, Sweden and the United States). AMID project.
   
2. Project on time use strategies within three ethnic minority groups in Denmark (Danish National Institute of Social Research).

General research interests:

• Muslim minority communities in Denmark
• Muslim minority communities in Sweden
• Muslim minority communities in the United States
• Ethnic minority communities in Denmark
• Family relations (e.g. marriage patterns) within ethnic minority groups in Denmark
• Ethnic minority youth

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2001)
American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communitiesin Chicago. Lund Series in the Study of Religions, Vol. 8. Stockholm:Almqvist & Wiksell International. Ph. D. Dissertation, 1998.

In Danish:

20 år i Danmark: En undersøgelse af nydanskeres situation og erfaringer. (20 Years in Denmark: A Study of the Situation and Experiences of "New Danes"). Rapport 00:11. København: Socialforskningsinstituttet, 2000.

"The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslims in Chicago," in Muslim Communities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Ed. Yvonne Y. Haddad. Laham: Altameira Press, 2002.

In Danish or Swedish:

"Religion i den tredje verkligheten," ((Religion in the Third Dimension) in Röster, ed. Leif Stenberg and Catharina Raudvere. Stockholm: Symposium, 1998.

"Sveriges Förenade CyberMuslimer - Blå-gul islam på Internet." (The United CyberMuslim Community of Sweden - Blue and Yellow Islam on the Internet) in Blågul Islam?, Eds. David Westerlund og Ingvar Svanberg. Nora: Nye Doxa:107-122, 1999.

"Sufisme på Internet" (Sufism on the Internet) in Levande Sufism, ed. David Westerlund. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2000.

"Dialectics of Authenticity: Examples of Ethnification of Islam among Young Muslims in the United States and Denmark" The Muslim World. Spring Issue, 2002

In Danish or Swedish:

"Cybermuslimer." Tidskrift för Mellanösternstudier, nr. 1: 85-100, 1995.

"Allah på internettet," i Chaos, dansk nordisk tidskrift for religionsvidenskabelige studier nr. 26:51-74, 1996.

På middag hos Louis Farrakhan." Tidskrift för Mellanösternstudier, nr. 1:89-95, 1997.

"Betagelsens balance: En artikel i to dele om feltarbejde, sex, og muslimer i Chicago." Chaos: Dansk tidskrift for religionsvidenskabelige studier, nr. 31. Pp. 139-152, 1999.

"Kulturens Grundpiller: Et spørgsmål om Generationer," i SocialForskning, Temanummer. København: Socialforskningsinstituttet.December, 2000.

Publications in 2001:
(2001c) "Review: Chaldean Americans: Changing Conceptions of Ethnic Identity. By Mary C. Sengstock," i Journal of American Ethnic History. Sommer 2001.

(2001d) "Review: Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in 'Secular' Britain. By L.Newbigin, L. Sanneh and J. Taylor". I Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations. Vol. 12, nr. 4.

In Danish:

(2001a) "Tvinges de til at gifte sig?" Nordjyske Tidende. 11. Februar.

(2001b) "Sufikarisma via Internet" i antologien Levande Sufism, red. David Westerlund. Nora: Nya Doxa. Pp. 222-239.

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2002)
(2002a) "The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslims in Chicago," i antologien Muslim Communities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Red. Yvonne Y. Haddad & Jane I. Smith. Laham MD: Altamira Press.

(2002b) "Dialectics of Authenticity: Examples of Ethnification of Islam among Young Muslims in the United States and Denmark" The Muslim World. Spring Issue.

In Danish:

(2002c) "Betydningen af familieformer og familietraditioner for integrationsprocesserne." AMID Working Paper Series, nr. 21. Ålborg: Akademiet for Migrationsstudier i Danmark.

(2002d, medforfatter Kirsten Just Jeppesen) "Børn og unge", i Integrationsforskningen i Danmark 1980 - 2002. København: Ministeriet for flygtninge, indvandrere og integration.

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2003)
(2003a) Tidsanvendelse blandt pakistanere, tyrkere og somaliere - et integrationsperspektiv. Copenhagen: Socialforskningsinstituttet.

(2003b) Mange veje til Integration (co-editor Connie Carøe Christiansen). København: Socialforskningsinstituttet.

(2003c) "Ung og borger - muslimsk ungdomsidentitet i Vesten" in Islam i bevægelse, ed. Mona Sheikh et al. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

(2003d) "Muslimske ungdomsforeninger i Danmark." in At være muslim i Danmark. Eds. Inge Liengaard and Lise P. Galal. Copenhagen. Anis.

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2004)
(2004) Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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