Celene Ibrahim
Dr. Celene Ibrahim is a cultural historian and multidisciplinary scholar known for her award-winning monograph Women and Gender in the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2020). Ibrahim is also the author of Islam and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the editor of One Nation, Indivisible: Seeking Liberty and Justice from the Pulpit to the Streets (Wipf & Stock, 2019), excerpts of which are featured in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
Dr. Ibrahim has authored dozens of essays in scholarly journals and popular publications and is a trusted voice for media outlets, including NPR, PBS, and Netflix. She's offered courses, lectures, trainings, and consultations for government, educational, and civic institutions globally, including top-tier universities, the U.S. State Department, and NASA. Her work has been translated into multiple languages.
Dr. Ibrahim was a Davis Scholar at Princeton University, where she earned the University's highest academic honors. She was named a Harvard Presidential Scholar and made institutional history as the first Muslim student to graduate from Harvard University with a Master's of Divinity. She was a Mellon Fellow and wrote an award-winning dissertation in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations at Brandeis University, where she also earned degrees in Women's and Gender Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
Dr. Ibrahim is currently a faculty member at Groton School in Religious Studies and Philosophy. She previously served as a Denominational Counselor with the Office of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, as the Muslim Chaplain at Tufts University, as a lecturer on seminary faculties across New England, and as a lecturer in Religious Studies at Merrimack College. She co-led an institute on religious pluralism and has held multiple research appointments, teaching positions, and fellowships, including at the Learning Network of the New York Times and at Teachers College at Columbia University. Ibrahim is an alumna of the United World College movement and serves on the College's US National Selection Committee.
