Faculty Portrait

Contact Information

Name: Harvey Stark

Title: Chair and Associate Professor, Humanities and Religious Studies

Office Location: MND 2011

Email: Harvey.stark@csus.edu

Office Phone: 916.278.7337

Mailing Address: 6000 J street

Office Hours: W 3-4 and by Appointment

Courses That I Teach

Courses:

HRS 4 Exploring World Religions

HRS 108 Approaches to Religious Studies

HRS 144 Introduction to Islam

HRS 145 Islamic Cultures

HRS 146 Islam in America

HRS 198 Senior Seminar in Religious Studies

HRS 237 Global Citizenship and Cullture

 

Publications

“Muslim Chaplains in North America.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America. Amir Hussain ed., New York: Oxford University Press (2023)

 “The American ‘Ulama and the Public Sphere.” In Routledge Handbook on Islam in the West 2nd ed. Roberto Tottoli, ed., New York: Routledge Press: 2022 (coauthored)

 “Imams and Chaplains as American Religious Professionals.” In The Oxford Handbook of American Islam. Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. (coauthored chapter)

“Religious Citizens After September 11th: The Impact of Politics on the Jurisprudence Concerning Muslim American Military Service,” The Muslim World, Volume 101, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 484-493.

Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past by Sally Howell, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, Review of Middle East Studies.

In The News

News Articles
Pakistan Link:
Jerusalem Post:
Sacramento Bee:
Television interviews
Telemundo:

https://www.telemundo33.com/noticias/local/israel-y-hamas-en-guerra-experto-explica-trasfondo-del-conflicto-belico/2180956/?

Spectrum News:
Radio
NPR:
https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2023/10/12/how-climate-change-impacts-mental-health-understanding-the-israel-palestine-conflict-106-year-old-dismantles-aging-stereotypes/

 
 

Papers and Presentations

 University of California Davis, Castle Franco Lecture (April 2022)
  - Lecture: “Life, death and “spiritual” healing, American Muslim Hospital Chaplains at work.”
 
  California State University, Sacramento, Provost Research Grant
- Presentation: Traditions of Diversity: An Introduction to Global Religions: A new model for teaching “world religions”
 
American Academy of Religion: Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (November 20, 2018)
- Paper presented: “American Muslim Chaplains and New Forms of Religious Identity in America.”
 
Riverside Church, New York, NY (January 17, 2017)
- Lecture: “Islam in America.”
                                   
American Academy of Religion: Study of Islam Section (November 4, 2016)
 - Paper presented: “The Gender of Muslim Leadership in the United States: Female Chaplains and the Boundaries of Institution and Religion.”
 
American Academy of Religion: Study of Islam Section (November 22, 2014)
- Paper presented: “American Religion and Citizenship: Patriotism and the Politics of Compliance.”
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Annual Conference (November 1, 2014)
- Paper presented: “Teaching about Gender and Sexuality: Muslim University Chaplains Address Religious Tolerance in America.”
 
 Islam in/and America Workshop: Yale University (December 6, 2013)
- Paper presented: “Black Muslims and White Conversion: American Culture and the Appeal of Islam.”
 
Islam in America Inaugural Conference: DePaul University (September 23, 2011)
- Paper presented: “Who Isn’t a Muslim American? Religious Leadership and the Muslim American Chaplaincy.”
 
University of British Columbia: Middle East and Islamic Consortium (March 2011)     
- Paper presented: “Religious Leadership and Muslim American Chaplaincy.”
American Academy of Religion: Religion and Politics Session  (Oct. 30, 2010)           
- Paper presented: “The Case of Muslim American Soldiers Fighting in Muslim Countries.”

Princeton University Islamic Studies Colloquium (December 11, 2009)

 - Paper presented: “Ethics as a Platform for Reform in the Work of Tariq Ramadan.”

 American Academy of Religion South East Conference (March 13-15, 2009)

- Paper presented: “Surat al-Kahf: Tafsir, Qisas, and Playwriting.”

 American Academy of Religion South East Conference (March 13-15, 2009)

- Chair: “Islam in America” Panel.

 

Conferences & Events Organized

Sacramento State Roundtable on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict (2023)

Sacramento State Town Hall on symbols and Language of Hate (2022)

Sacramento State Festival of the Arts Events:

  • “Queer Indígena Art: Visual Prayers and Remembering Grandmother Earth” (2022)
  • “Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Sacred Blackness” (2021)
  • “The Black Index”: An Exhibition (2021)
  • “Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, & African American Religions (2020)
  • “Art, Politics, and Youth in Iran” (2017)
  • “Writing the Gospel Slant:  Evangelical Music, Theology, and Ethnography” (2016
  • “When I Have Dementia: Dimensions of Spirituality, Social Justice, and Dementia”
  • “Women in Islam: Qur’an & Gender” (2015)
  • Unmosqued: Film Screening & Panel Discussion (2015)

 

The Conference on Islam in America, Webinar (March 14, 2012)

 “Overcoming Racial Divides in the Umma.”

Princeton University & the American Moroccan Institute (March 10-11, 2007)

“Breaking Apart the Monolith: The Many Ways of Being Muslim.”

The American Moroccan Institute - Rabat, Morocco (December 19-20, 2005)

“American-Arab Relations Through Media (Co-organizer)