Academic PositionS
Michigan State University
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)
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
2020-2022
“Global Migration”
University of Michigan-Dearborn
2019 – 2020
“Introduction to Arab American Studies”
Baruch College
2013-2016
“Introduction to Sociology”
