Jeffry Halverson
Professor, Religious Studies
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Contact Jeffry Halverson
843-349-2974 jhalverso@coastal.eduAcademic Classroom Building 2 (AOC2) 328
Spring 2023 Office Hours
Mondays/Wednesdays 2:00 - 4:00pm
*Please email for an appointment.
Biography
Jeffry R. Halverson, Ph.D., is a professor of religious studies (Islamic studies) in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University. He previously served as an assistant research professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Halverson is the author of Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam (Potomac, 2012), and the lead author of Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge 2017). His scholarship has also been published in many academic journals, including the Journal of Africana Religions, The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, The Muslim World and The Journal of Communication, among others.
Education
Interesting Facts
Halverson was a US Fulbright scholar to Cairo, Egypt, from 2000-2001. In 2005, Halverson attended the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway, as a guest of his father, Dr. Bruce R. Halverson, then President of Augustana University, a Lutheran Norwegian-heritage college in Sioux Falls, SD.
Teaching Areas
Islamic Studies, History of Religions
Research Areas
Modern Sunni Islam in the Middle East and North Africa, Sunni Theology, Islamic Nonviolence, Islam in America