Sylvia Chan-Malik, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on the history of Islam in the United States, and more broadly, on the intersections of race, gender, and religion in American public life. Her book, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam (NYU Press, forthcoming Spring 2018) offers an alternative narrative of American Islam in the 20-21st century that centers the lives, subjectivities, and voices of women of color.
