Her research focuses on Muslim communities in contemporary Europe where she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork for two decades. Her work examines the intersections between contemporary expressions of Islamic practice and secular governance, especially in a political context defined by the Global War on Terror. Furthermore, her broader research and teaching interests include anthropology of religion, ethics, religious pluralism and secularism, popular culture, race, gender

2020- present Syracuse University, Religion, Associate Professor

2019-2020 University of Pittsburgh, Religious Studies, Associate Professor

2015-2019 University of Pittsburgh, Religious Studies, Assistant Professor

2013-2015 College of Charleston, International Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor

2012-2013 Duke University, Women’s Studies, Post-doctoral Research Associate

2011-2012 Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, Fellow

2008-2011 Amsterdam Institute for Social Science, University of Amsterdam, Post-doctoral Researcher

2007- 2008 International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, Netherlands, Post-doctoral Fellow

2021 “Making Afro-Diasporic Muslim Hip-Hop in Britain: Black Consciousness, Islamic Spirituality and Intercorporeal Ethics.” In Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas: Memory, Movement and Belonging through the Body. Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili (eds.) Duke University Press.

2021 “Introduction: Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas.”(co-authored with Yolanda Covington-Ward) In Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas: Memory, Movement and Belonging through the Body. Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili (eds.) Duke University Press.

2019 “Islam and Culture: Dis/junctures in a Modern Conceptual Terrain.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 60.1, 207-237

2014 “Introduction: Islamic Sounds and the Politics of Listening.” Special issue of Anthropological Quarterly 87.4: 977-988 (coauthored with Annelies Moors).

2014 “Refining the Umma in the Shadow of the Republic: Islamic Performing Arts and New

Islamic Audio-visual Landscapes in France.” Special issue “Islamic Sounds and the Politics of Listening” Anthropology Quarterly 87.4: 1079-1104.

2013 “Rapping the Republic: Utopia, Critique and Muslim Role Models in Secular France.”

French Politics, Culture & Society 31.2: 58-80.

Spring 2022 Syracuse University Humanities Center Faculty Fellow

Society Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanity, 2011-2021