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SOF Alum Amira Mittermaier Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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July 7, 2021
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Amira Mittermaier, a professor in the departments for the study of religion and the department of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mittermaier’s work weaves textual analysis with ethnographic fieldwork. Her research focuses on modern Islam in Egypt.