{"id":3330,"date":"2010-07-28T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?page_id=3330"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:06:57","slug":"melanie-adrian","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/melanie-adrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Adrian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chair in Teaching Innovation (2019-2022)
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Dr. Melanie Adrian\u2019s research focuses on the question of rights of minorities in religiously, ethnically and culturally diverse societies. She is examining how states integrate or accommodate culturally distinct peoples while maintaining a healthy balance between international and national rights and respect for national values. Amongst other publications, she is author of Religious Freedom at Risk: The EU, French schools, and Why the Veil was Banned <\/em>(2016) and co-editor of Producing Islams in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics<\/em> (2021). Dr. Adrian serves as Associate Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America <\/em>(2026). More recently her research examines identity amongst Muslim youth in private Islamic schools in Canada. Her op-eds have been published in the Globe & Mail<\/em> and the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>. Dr. Adrian was invested into the Order of Ontario in 2019 and awarded the Senate Medal in 2017 for her work for at-risk scholars, breast cancer patients and community leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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