Gender and Islam

The Prophet Muhammad

Islam in America

Islam and the Media

Introduction to Islam

World Religions

Global Islam: Movement, Conflict, and Coexistence

Fall 2022-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Redlands - Redlands, CA

Fall 2021-Summer 2022, Senior Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Redlands - Redlands, CA

August 2017-Spring 2021, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Redlands - Redlands, CA

Fall 2017-Present, Lecturer of Religion, California State University, Fullerton - Fullerton, CA

Fall 2015-Spring 2017, Fulltime Lecturer of Religion, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Fall 2014-Spring 2015, Humanities Core Lecturer, University of California, Irvine - Irvine, CA

Fall 2014 and Spring 2015, Philosophy Instructor, UCLA Extension - Los Angeles, CA

Fall 2014, Lecturer of Religion, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Fall 2011, Adjunct Professor, California Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks, CA

Fall 2006-Spring 2009, Teaching Assistant, Claremont Graduate University - Claremont, CA

1999-2002, Islamic Studies Teacher, Averroes Academy - Northbrook, IL

1995-1998, Islamic Studies Teacher, Islamic Cultural Center - Northbrook, IL

Historic Muslim Lands: Interreligious Movement, Conflict, and Coexistence, Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge University Press, Under Contract.

“From Orientalist Sexual Object to Burkini Terrorist Threat: Muslim Women through an Evolving Lens.” Islamophobia Studies Journal XX, no. X (2017): 101-114.

“A Shared Devotion: Ghazali and Aquinas on the Interaction between Reason and Revelation Against the Argument of an Eternal World.” Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology. IN REVISION FOR PUBLICATION.

“Coverings.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Hagar.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Shari’a.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Marriage and Divorce.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Pilgrimage.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Reform.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“Women’s Organizations.” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO, (2018). Print/Online.

“‘Good Muslim,’ ‘Evil Islam’ Dichotomy.” Huffington Post 2016. Web. 26 Feb. 2016.

"What Does It Mean to Be Religious?". Huffington Post 2016. Web. 7 Jan. 2016.

“Eradicate Terror in the Name of Religion”. Huffington Post 2016. Web. 15 Nov. 2015

“That You May Know Each Other”, in Encountering the Stranger:A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Trialogue, ed. John K. Roth and Leonard Grob. University of Washington Press: October 2012.

Seven Surahs for the Classroom, Chicago: IQRA’ International Educational Foundation, 2000.

Contributor to:
Naber, Nadine and Stiffler, Matthew, “Maronite Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Sunni Muslims from the Arab Region: Between Empire, Racialization, and Assimilation,” MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference, edit. Vincent L. Wimbush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Interfaith Youth Core 2019 and 2020
Racial Equity and Interfaith Cooperation Award.

Claremont Graduate University Dissertation Grant Award, 2011-2012
Annual competition for advanced (all but dissertation) doctoral students, meant to facilitate the rapid completion of promising and distinctive dissertation projects.

Featured Student, 2011
Claremont Graduate University, School of Arts and Humanities Website, represented among notable students

Robert J. Bernard Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2008
Awarded on the basis of academic performance at Claremont Graduate University-School of Religion.

John and Irene Nugent Memorial Fund Fellowship, 2006-2007
Awarded on the basis of academic performance at Claremont Graduate University-School of Religion.

Claremont Graduate University Fellowship: Jan. 2006 to May 2008
School of Religion

Claremont Graduate University Fellowship: Jan. 2006 to May 2008
Philosophy Department

Chancellor’s List Publication 2004-2005
Awarded on the basis of recognition for outstanding academic and community achievements in a professional, meaningful and dignified manner.