Academic Positions
Michigan State University
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
2022-Present
Dean’s Research Associate
Department of Sociology
2020-2022
Education
Ph.D. Sociology
CUNY Graduate Center
2020
B.A. Sociology
University of Michigan-Dearborn
2011
Summa cum laude
A.A. Liberal Arts
Oakland Community College
2009
Summa cum laude
Publications (selected)
FORTHCOMING
Making Muslim Americans. Under contract with NYU Press.
2025
Gambol, Brenda, Rebecca A. Karam, and Andrew Taeho Kim. 2025. “Nursing as Ethnic Capital: Perceptions of Intergenerational Niching among Filipino Americans.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2584342
“Uncertain Safety: Uncovering the Religious Racial Socialization Process among Muslim American Families during the 2016 Election.” Journal of Family Studies 31(2): 226-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2024.2433488.
2021
“Meeting the Moral Markers of Success: Concerted Cultivation among Second-Generation Muslim Parents.” Sociological Forum 36(4): 1-39.
“Religious Pluralism in the City.” Sociology of Religion 82(3): 380–384.
2020
Becoming American by Becoming Muslim: Strategic Assimilation among Second-Generation Muslim American Parents.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(2): 390-409.
Winner of the 2019 Eastern Sociological Society’s Candace Rogers Award for Outstanding Student Paper
2017
“Rust Belt Revitalization, Immigration, and Islam: Toward a Better Understanding of Mosques in Declining Urban Neighborhoods.” City & Community 16(3):257-262.
“Muslims for American Progress: An Impact Report of Muslim Contributions to Michigan” Dearborn, MI: Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
Teaching
Michigan State University
2020-2025
Graduate
SOC985: Qualitative Field Methods
SOC852 Migration and Social Change
SOC816 Contemporary Social Theory
Undergraduate
SOC480 Advanced Research Methods: Qualitative Interviewing
SOC460 Advanced Seminar in Human Migration
SOC315 Family and Society
SOC310 Global Migration
University of Michigan-Dearborn
2019 – 2020
AAST3150 Introduction to Arab American Studies
Baruch College
2013-2016
SOC1005 Introduction to Sociology
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