Jennifer Selby

{{short description|Canadian scholar}}

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| fields = secular politics, women in Islam, gender studies, religious law

| workplaces = Memorial University of Newfoundland

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| education = Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
McMaster University (PhD)
Queen's University (MA)
University of Winnipeg (BA)

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| thesis_title = The Shifting Boundaries of Gender Politics and Laicite: An Ethnography of First-generation Muslim Maghrebian Women in a Parisian banlieue

| thesis_url = https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/15573

| thesis_year = 2007

| doctoral_advisor = Ellen Badone

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| awards = Fulbright Fellowship

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| website = https://www.mun.ca/relstudies/people/jselby.php

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Jennifer A. Selby is a Canadian scholar and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is known for her research on secularism, women in Islam, gender studies and religious law.{{cite journal |last1=Winter |first1=Bronwyn |title=Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb |journal=Journal of Church and State |date=1 March 2014 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=174–176 |doi=10.1093/jcs/cst114 |language=en |issn=0021-969X}}{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Michelle C. |title=Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb by Jennifer A. Selby |journal=American Ethnologist |date=2013 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=234–236 |doi=10.1111/amet.12015_17 |language=en |issn=1548-1425}}{{cite journal |last1=Rogozen-Soltar |first1=Mikaela |title=Review of Jennifer Selby, Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb |journal=Contemporary Islam |date=1 May 2014 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=177–180 |doi=10.1007/s11562-012-0233-8 |s2cid=141340153 |language=en |issn=1872-0226}}{{cite journal |last1=Kolshus |first1=Thorgeir |last2=Bangstad |first2=Sindre |last3=Bielo |first3=James S. |last4=Gobin |first4=Emma |last5=Wesser |first5=Grit |last6=Macfarlane |first6=Sibyl |last7=Hewlett |first7=Christopher |last8=Kaell |first8=Hillary |last9=Weiss |first9=Erica |last10=Bialecki |first10=Jon |title=Book Reviews |journal=Religion and Society |date=1 September 2014 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=261–281 |doi=10.3167/arrs.2014.050116 |url=https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/religion-and-society/5/1/air-rs050116.xml?rskey=GPTWOT&result=1 |accessdate=15 December 2018 |issn=2150-9298}}{{cite journal |last1=Dean |first1=Jason |title=Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration |journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion |date=May 2013 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=335–336 |doi=10.1080/13537903.2013.783328 |s2cid=144596008 }}{{cite journal |last1=Baines |first1=Beverley |title=Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration ed. by Anna C. Korteweg and Jennifer A. Selby (review) |journal=University of Toronto Quarterly |date=23 October 2014 |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=525–527 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/557196 |accessdate=15 December 2018 |language=en |issn=1712-5278}}

Selby won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 and 2016.{{cite web |title=The Community Leadership Program |url=http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/enrichment/clp/recent-grantees |website=Fulbright Canada |accessdate=15 December 2018 |language=en}}