Inaash Islam, Ph.D.
Dr. Inaash Islam
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Virginia Tech in 2021, with a graduate certificate in Women's & Gender Studies. My research is focused broadly on the intersections of race, anti-Muslim racism, gender, religion, identity, and digital media. More specifically, I examine the post-9/11 implications of anti-Muslim racism, Islamic feminism, and anti-Black racism in the lives of Muslim women and Black Muslims in America. The goal of my scholarship is to facilitate gender justice and anti-racism within and outside of Muslim America.
Appointments
2024- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
2021-24 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Saint Michael's College
Education
2021 PhD. Sociology, Virginia Tech
Dissertation: Visible Muslims, Political Beings: The Racialized and Gendered Contours of a Digitally-Mediated Muslim Womanhood
2017 M.S. Sociology, Virginia Tech
2015 B.A. Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Academic Certificates
2019 Women's and Gender Studies Certificate, conferred by the Women’s & Gender Studies Department at Virginia Tech