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
Papers and Presentations
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)