Biography
Dr. Inaash Islam is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Virginia Tech in 2021, with a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. As a race and gender scholar, her research examines the post-9/11 implications of anti-Muslim racism, gendered embodiment practices, Islamic feminism, and anti-Black racism in the lives of Muslim women and Black Muslims in America. She has a co-authored book with Dr. Saher Selod and Dr. Steve Garner, entitled A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism and has published work in Du Bois Review, Feminist Formations, and the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research. The goal of her scholarship is to facilitate gender justice and anti-racism within and outside of Muslim America.
Courses
- Development of Social Theory
Select publications
Books:
Saher Selod, Inaash Islam and Steve Garner. 2023. A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism. Polity Press. LINK: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=a-global-racial-enemy-muslims-and-21st-century-racism--9781509540198
Articles:
Islam, Inaash. 2023. “When Modesty Meets Aesthetic Labor: Islamic Modesty as Antithetical to Muslimah Influencers’ Aesthetic Labor,'' Feminist Formations, 35(2): 173-196.
Islam, Inaash. 2020. “Muslim American Double Consciousness.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 17(2): 429-448
Islam, Inaash. 2019. ‘Redefining #YourAverageMuslim woman: Muslim female digital activism on social media’, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 12(2), pp. 213–233