Hussein Rashid

Academic. Speaker. Educator. Advocate.

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University Distinguished Teaching Award 2023

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Since 1988, The New School has recognized outstanding teachers with the Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2014, the university established an Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Justice Teaching to recognize members of the faculty who significantly advance social justice through their teaching and research. Listed below are individuals who have been recognized for their outstanding commitment to teaching.

2023 Distinguished University Teaching Awards

  • Anjali Khosla, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Design, Eugene Lang College
  • Kenneth Millington, Part-Time Assistant Professor, Parsons First Year, Parsons School of Design
  • Hussein Rashid, Part-Time Lecturer, Religious Studies, Eugene Lang College

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Hussin Rashid in academic regalia offer a benediction at the Fordham Law School graduation in 2019.
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Advisor on Alhamdu

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Please to announce I'm an advisor on Alhamdu, which:

is an experiential arts project created by MIPSTERZ that explores Muslim Futurism—a cultural and artistic aesthetic that builds on Afrofuturist works to reimagine an American Muslim future free from the confines of the majority culture.

Excited to see this project develop.

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Visiting Scholar Virginia Theological Seminary

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Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) welcomes Dr. Hussein Rashid to campus this week as the Center for Anglican Communion Studies’ (CACS) Visiting Muslim Scholar. During his eight week stay at the Seminary, Rashid will teach a course entitled, “Not so Common Stories: Prophets in the Qur’an and the Bible.”

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“Dr. Rashid’s enthusiasm for interreligious engagement, vast experience, and engaging demeanor will make him extremely popular with our students,” said the Rev. Robin Razzino, interreligious officer for CACS. “Having a scholar with his background will allow VTS to continue to offer students opportunities to be in conversation with others who can help inform their ministries.”

Virginia Seminary Welcomes Muslim Scholar Hussein Rashid

Thanks to the Luce Grant, we are delighted to welcome to the campus Dr. Hussein Rashid. With a PhD from Harvard University, he describes himself as a ‘proud Muslim and native New Yorker’. He has his own ‘in between’ ministry for he teaches at both Hofstra University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. With a range of fascinating interests from the impact of 9/11 on Muslim adolescents to emerging Muslim-American musics, he is a cutting edge scholar with an international reputation.

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