Talks & Public Scholarship
Interview with Project Noon and host Saad Ismail. 2023.
Is Religion Still Relevant Today? with Dr. Megan Goodwin for ICJS.
Profile at The Aspen Institute’s Inclusive America Project.
Religious Literacy is Social Justice. Vermont First Wednesdays, 2021.
Podcast interview, ACMCU’s Building Bridges Podcast, Georgetown University. July 9, 2019.
Digital roundtable response to The Skull of Alum Beg: the Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857, by Kim Wagner (London: Oxford University Press, 2018) for Chapati Mystery (a South Asian studies scholarly blog). August 7, 2018.
“Tracking Hate: Islam and Race after the Presidential Election,” Religion & Politics, a project of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. December 6, 2016.
After the Rebellion. @ Georgetown University and ACMCU.
What Is Islam? Forum, Marginalia Review of Books, co-editor/co-author with Kristian Petersen. 6-part review series with critical introduction by Petersen and myself on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? The Case for Being Islamic (Princeton UP: 2015). Originally published August 19-26, 2016. Co-authored introduction here:
“Spinning but not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness,” Religion Dispatches, June 14, 2016.
Picked up and redistributed by AlterNet, June 18, 2016.
UVM Faculty Feature. 2017.
Interview with Troy Mikanovich, Assistant Editor, Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion. “Interview with Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion.” November 2017.
Profile of Ilyse’s 2022-2023 Fulbright award, with other UVM Fulbright scholars.
Becoming Less Racist series, with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh. 2021.
Goodwin, Megan, and Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst. “How A Stars And Stripes Hijab On ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship To Gender, Ethnicity And ‘That’ Religion.” Religion Dispatches. April 27, 2020.
Islam After Colonialism, Exeter and Habib Seminar, 2021.
After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad in South Asia. @ Duke University.
Religion in the Time of Covid. UVM Series, Experts Live. 2020.
Outside Response. “’Religion’ in Muslim Traditions Workshop,” The Maydan, an online publication of Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. August 1, 2019.
“After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia,” Humanities Futures, online publication of Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. February 18, 2019.
XQs (Ten Questions) Series, Chapati Mystery (a South Asian studies scholarly blog). Interview with Anmol Ghavri. July 17, 2018.
“Looking for Religion in South Asian Islamicate Sources,” The Maydan, an online publication of Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. December 18, 2017.
St. Paul’s Lakewood Thurman Lecture, 2020.
“Five Books I’m Recommending to All My Friends,” Political Theology Network, “Books We Love” series. August 9, 2017.
5-part series on “Indian Summers,” with Michael Altman, PBS Masterpiece Theater program (2015), in Sacred Matters: Religious Currents in Culture.