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Institutionalizing Value Conflict

Examining how value conflict becomes institutionalized through discourse and state policy, with religion and Islam in particular as central sites of classification, regulation, and boundary-making.

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Organizational Processes & Labor Market Stratification  

Developing and testing a theory of religious organizational inequality that explains how organizational practices produce stratified employment outcomes, including differential access to work and variation in job quality.

🎓 JOB MARKET PAPER [Working Paper]

"Religion at Work: A Theory of Organizational Inequality" [First Author, with Makovi K., and Frimpong, J.A.]

*Draft available upon request*

2025 

• "Beyond Racism: Re-centering Religious Hostility in the Conceptualization of Islamophobia", Ethnicities

Policy impact: Research prompted outreach from Australia’s first Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia (appointed by the Australian Prime Minister), leading to ongoing discussions on research-policy collaboration. He also designated the article as required reading for his team.

• "French Islamophobia: How Orthopraxy Is Conceptualized as a Public Peril", Religions [Equal contribution with Lienen, C.]

• "Islamophobia: The Discursive Apparatus of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, Palestine", Critical Sociology 

2022

• "Does the Muslim penalty in the British labour market dissipate after accounting for so-called ‘sociocultural attitudes’?", Ethnic and Racial Studies

Media impact: The Guardian, The National, Arab News, Morocco World News, Daily Sabah, Islam Channel, The Mirage, University of Bristol press release, ‘Read of the Day’ in The Bridge Initiative newsletter (Georgetown University), Muslim Women Network, and an in-depth television interview on Islam Channel.

Under Review

• "A Job, But Not Necessarily a Good One: Control at Work and the Muslim Penalty Among Women in Britain" [First Author, with Cheung, SY.]

• "Who Speaks Up? Race-Gender Inequalities in the Disclosure of Workplace Bullying" [First Author, with with Makovi K., Shepherd H., and Frimpong, J.A.]