RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS
Developing a macro–meso–micro account of religion-based inequality.
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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.
—— M E S O & M I C R O L E V E L S
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.]
AY 2019/20 Social Identities & Divisions
Graduate Teacher (level 1) • Fall Semester
Convincing Stories? Numbers as Evidence in Social Science
Graduate Teacher (level 2) • Fall Semester
AY 2020/21 Foundation in Arts and Social Sciences
Supervisor • Spring Semester
Convincing Stories? Numbers as Evidence in Social Science
Graduate Teacher (level 2) • Fall Semester
AY 2023/24 Racisms and Race
Guest Lecturer • Fall Semester
Islam and Society
Guest Lecturer • Fall Semester
Capstone
Feedback Panelist • Fall Semester
AY 2024/25 Islam and Society
Guest Lecturer • Fall Semester
Capstone
Feedback Panelist • Fall Semester
AY 2023/24 Comparative Apartheid/Settler Colonialism
Guest Lecturer • Fall Semester
Selected media mentions and interviews related to my research.
➕ THE GUARDIAN
"Muslims’ high unemployment rate ‘not due to cultural and religious practices’"
Feature • Jul 2022
➕ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Press Release • Jul 2022
➕ THE CONVERSATION
Blog • Aug 2022
➕ ISLAM CHANNEL
"Study claims Muslims have a "significantly greater probability of unemployment""
Feature • Jul 2022
➕ MOROCCO WORLD NEWS
"British Muslims’ High Unemployment Rate Is Not Only Due to ‘Muslim Penalty’"
Feature • Jul 2022
➕ ARAB NEWS
"High unemployment rate among British Muslims not due to cultural, religious practices: Study"
Feature • Jul 2022