Caitlin Killian

          Caitlin Killian, assistant professor of sociology, received her Ph.D. in sociology with a certificate in women's studies from Emory University and her B.A. in comparative literature with a concentration in women's studies from Swarthmore College. Her areas of interest include immigration and cultural adatation, identity processes, and gender and ethnic socialization. She has published articles on Maghrebin women's cultural adaptation in France, Muslim women's views on the headscarf affair in France, Vietnamese parents and children in the United States, and the role of bicultural competence in reducing crime among the children of immigrants. Last year she gave a talk on the French headscarf affair and religious symbols law at Princeton University, and this summer she presented her research on the privatization of "French" Islam at a conference in France. The past two springs she participated in conferences on Islam in Europe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004) and at the University of Washington (2005). Her book manuscript on first-generation North African women's cultural choices and identity negotiation in France will be forthcoming in 2006 at Stanford University Press.