 | Growing Up Muslim: Muslim College Students Tell Their Life Stories Subjects: Dartmouth College -- Students -- Biography; Muslim college students -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- Biography; Muslim youth -- Education (Higher) -- New Hampshire -- Hanover; Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny present fourteen personal essays by college students of the Muslim faith who are themselves immigrants or are the children of immigrants to the United States. Andrew Garrod is Professor Emeritus of Education at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories , Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories , Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories , and Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories , all from Cornell. Robert Kilkenny is Executive Director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention and a Clinical Associate in the School of Social Work at Simmons College. He is coeditor of Mi Voz, Mi Vida , Balancing Two Worlds , and Mixed . Eboo Patel, a leading public figure in the Muslim American community, is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation and Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America . He is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and CNN, and he was a member of President Obama's Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. |
