Anna M. Gade

Anna M. Gade is a scholar of Islam, religion and ethics, Southeast Asia and environmental studies. She is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses in Environmental Humanities, Islamic Studies, and the academic study of religion and ethics in the Religious Studies Program.^[1] Her influential book, Muslim Enviromentalisms (2019), has defined Islamic environmental studies across multiple fields, including environmental humanities. Her current academic work focuses in the comparative field of environmental ethics, along with ongoing research programs on sustainability issues in the Global South.

Gade's early work was in the field of Qur'anic studies and the academic study of religion. Her book, Perfection Makes Practice, has been foundational to academic work theorizing affect and emotion in religious ritual and practice, focusing on the Qur'an as a living recited text for learning, memorization and performance; this was followed by her popular book, The Qur'an: An Introduction. In the field of Southeast Asian Studies, she helped to write The Cham Rebellion by Ysa Osman, witnessing first-person accounts of Muslim survivors among the Chams in Cambodia, and providing key evidence for the international Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Since the 1990s, much of her field-based research has been conducted in Indonesia.