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Rachel Woodlock, M.Islam.Std. (Melb), is an academic and writer specialising in Islam and Muslims in the West. She has worked at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University, as well as writing for The Age and the ABC Religion & Ethics website among others.
Most recently, she contributed the "Islam in Australia" section for Oxford Bibliographies Online, guest edited a special edition of the State Library of Victoria's La Trobe Journal on the Muslim experience in Australia and wrote "Islamic Beliefs and Practices" for the Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia. She is currently writing a book with Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein and Simon Smart debating belief (to be published by Pan Macmillan mid-2013).
When not buried under piles of books and manuscripts, Rachel can be found cooing at cows and sheep in rural Ireland where she recently moved with husband, daughter and family cat.
Degrees
Most recently, she contributed the "Islam in Australia" section for Oxford Bibliographies Online, guest edited a special edition of the State Library of Victoria's La Trobe Journal on the Muslim experience in Australia and wrote "Islamic Beliefs and Practices" for the Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia. She is currently writing a book with Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein and Simon Smart debating belief (to be published by Pan Macmillan mid-2013).
When not buried under piles of books and manuscripts, Rachel can be found cooing at cows and sheep in rural Ireland where she recently moved with husband, daughter and family cat.
Degrees
- Master of Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, 2004
- Bachelor of Arts (Arabic & Islamic Studies), University of Melbourne, 2000
- Bachelor of Music, University of Melbourne, 2000
- Associate Diploma in Music, Australia, 1991