EDWARD E. CURTIS IV, Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest (New York: New York University Press, 2022)

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  • Ashley Johnson Bavery Eastern Michigan University Author

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https://doi.org/10.24847/v9i22022.342

Author Biography

  • Ashley Johnson Bavery, Eastern Michigan University

    Ashley Johnson Bavery is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches courses on race, immigration, and the urban United States. Her first book, Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) won the First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. She has published articles in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Urban History and is currently at work on a book that examines Muslim immigrants, race, and industrialization in the twentieth-century Midwest.

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2022-11-15

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