Research areas: 

Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, Islamic Feminisms, Race/Racialization, Cultural Sociology, Racial Identity.

In my scholarship, I expand on two existing paradigms to better understand the contemporary Muslim American experience as it is informed by the global war on terror: Racism/Racialization and Islamic Feminisms. As I center Muslim American women in my research agenda, much of my scholarship occurs at the intersection of these two paradigms. My current book project, tentatively titled (Un)Veiling Expectations: Navigating an Unmarked Muslim American Womanhood uses interviews with formerly-hijabi Muslimah Americans to examine their experience of taking off the hijab in the post-9/11 era. I examine their reasons for unveiling, their experience of being lauded and/or policed by their Muslim and non-Muslim communities for doing so, and their mobilization of Islamic feminisms to justify their decisions to unveil. My other future projects build on these threads and paradigms, and are focused on facilitating gender justice and anti-racism in and outside of Muslim America.