Lou Cristillo

Lou Cristillo is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. He specializes in education and development in the Muslim world and is the Project Director of the Muslim Youth in New York City Public Schools Study.
Biography
In addition to teaching courses on education and development in the Middle East and Muslim world, Dr. Cristillo conducts anthropological research on Islamic education and Muslim religiosity. He is the project director of the Muslim Youth in NYC Public School Study at Columbia University's Teachers College. Research for this three-year study, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, examines what role religiosity plays in shaping the civic and religious identities, attitudes and behavior of Muslim youth in public schools, especially in the post-9/11 environment. Dr. Cristillo also served as the project coordinator for Columbia University's Muslims in New York City Project, a groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, also sponsored by the Ford Foundation, exploring the complex issues of Muslim identity and community building in New York City. His research focuses on Muslims in New York City, formal and non-formal religious education among Muslim diaspora communities in America and the sociology of religious and secular education in the Middle East.
Works
*“Schools” and “Higher Education,” in the Encyclopedia of Islam in America. The Greenwood Publishing Group (forthcoming)
*“The Case for the Muslim School as a Civil Society Actor,” in Islamic Education in America, edited by Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith. London: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
*“Private Muslim schools in the USA: Increasing Engagement” (Fulbright Symposium, 2007)
*“The Changing Arab New York Community” (Syracuse University, 2002)
*“Knowledge and Power at a Muslim School in New York City” (Annual Convocation of the Council of Anthropology and Education and Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association)
*“Transcendent Transnationalism: Religiosity and Ethnicity at a Private Muslim Day School in New York City” (Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, 2001)
*“The Religious Self: Individual and Collective Identity Among Muslim New Yorkers,” (Muslim Communities in NYC Project Conference, 2001)
Articles and Books That Reference Lou Cristillo
*The Arab American News, June 16, 2007, “Playing sports a challenge at Islamic schools”
*Financial Times, September 9, 2006, “Muslims beset by suspicion”
*New York Times, March 5, 2006, "A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling Two Worlds"
*MSNBC, September 30, 2005, "Latino women finding a place in Islam"
*Newsday, July 31, 2005, "Muslims try to find a common ground; There are more than 70,000 Muslims in both Nassau and Suffolk counties"
*Christian Science Monitor, June 28, 2005, “Muslim-US diplomacy - one teen at a time”
*New York Times, October 5, 2004, “Study Finds City's Muslims Growing Closer Since 9/11”
*Framing Terrorism: The News Media, the Government and the Public (Routledge 2003)
*Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual American (Knopf 2002)

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