Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Ed.D. together with Christopher Fici and Gerald Vigna edited the text Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals for the Routledge in Religion Series. In addition, MisirHiralall recently published a book entitled Confronting Orientalism A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance. She defended her dissertation De-Orientalized Pedagogy: Educating Non-Hindus About Hinduism Through Kuchipudi Indian Classical Hindu Dance in the Pedagogy and Philosophy program at Montclair State University. In the text, MisirHiralall focuses on how she uses Kuchipudi Indian classical Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about Hi…
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Ed.D. together with Christopher Fici and Gerald Vigna edited the text Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals for the Routledge in Religion Series. In addition, MisirHiralall recently published a book entitled Confronting Orientalism A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance. She defended her dissertation De-Orientalized Pedagogy: Educating Non-Hindus About Hinduism Through Kuchipudi Indian Classical Hindu Dance in the Pedagogy and Philosophy program at Montclair State University. In the text, MisirHiralall focuses on how she uses Kuchipudi Indian classical Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about Hinduism with postcolonial realities in mind. MisirHiralall aims to develop a de-Orientalized postcolonial pedagogy to confront Orientalism and the long legacy of colonization. She is a philosopher of education.
MisirHiralall taught second grade in Bayonne, New Jersey and also worked as a consultant for New Jersey City University’s Striving Readers Grant. At NJCU, she taught undergraduate education classes, supervised student teachers, taught graduate students of the NOYCE fellowship program, and taught for the Philosophy and Religion department. She taught philosophy courses as well as student success courses part-time at Middlesex County College. In fact, MisirHiralall received the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award 2015 from MCC. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor in the Educational Foundations Department at Montclair State University where she often teaches Philosophy of Education, History of American Education, and Gender Issues in Education. She also adjuncts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she teaches Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality for the Women and Gender Studies Department.
MisirHiralall is frequently invited to lecture and dance in higher education as she presents on Hinduism with postcolonialism in mind. She is a member of the American Education Research Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Philosophical Association. She served as Regional Coordinator, President, and Vice President on the Executive Board of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.
