Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Persian: کامبیز قانع بصیری), is Professor of Religion at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
He co-edited All Religion Is Inter-religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom and Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur'an and Islam in Honor of William A. Graham.
One of his former students,[6] Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, along with Rick Best and Micah David-Cole Fletcher, defended two young Muslim girls in the 2017 Portland train attack.
[11] Selections from his scholarship on "American Muslim Activism Following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan" has been included in The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West, edited by Edward E.
"[13] Along with Leah Wright Rigueur, author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, he spoke at the Saint Louis University on Friday, January 20, 2017 as part of the "History, Social Justice, and the Age of Trump" discussion.