Caner K. Dagli (Adyghe: Къушъхьэ Джанэр) is a Turkish Circassian-American Islamic scholar and associate professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
[2][3] Dagli is of Karachai and Circassian origin and was born in the United States to parents who migrated from Turkey.
in Near Eastern studies and completed his M.A in religion with special emphasis on Islam from George Washington University.
From 2005 to 2008, he served as an assistant professor at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia and was an advisor for interfaith affairs to the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan from 2006 to 2007.
As a Muslim, Dagli was a signatory to the open letter, A Common Word Between Us and You.