Thirteenth Annual Marcia Robbins Wilf Lecture

Afridi is a Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University.  She teaches courses on Islam, the Holocaust, Genocide, comparative religion and Feminism.  Her last book Shoah through Muslim Eyes (Academic Studies Press, 2017) was nominated for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research and the Jacob Schnitzer Book Award. She is currently working on a book, The Wounded Muslim, (Lexington Books, forthcoming), and a co-edited book on Global Approaches to the Holocaust, (Nebraska University Press, forthcoming). In 2019 she was awarded the Costello Award for teaching excellence in the School of Liberal Arts and the Lasallian Educator (2020) at Manhattan College. She is also a U.S. State Department Member on the delegation for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.  She also serves as a member of the Committee of Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, D.C. 

Professor Afridi obtained her Ph.D. from the University of South Africa and her M.A. and B.A. from Syracuse University.

This event is free and open to the public through the generosity of the Dr. Marcia Robbins Wilf Lecture Endowment.

About the Sister Rose Thering Fund 

The Sister Rose Thering Fund began as a supporting wing of the Graduate Department of Jewish-Christian Studies, which is currently a graduate program in the Department of Religion. Our mission is to advance Sister Rose’s legacy by fostering understanding and cooperation among Jews, Christians and people of other religious traditions through advocacy and education. Sister Rose Thering served as administrator, recruiting educators and raising funds to defray tuition costs, until her retirement in 2005.

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