Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Fields: Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Muslim Racism, Islamic and Muslim Feminisms, Race/Racialization, Cultural Sociology, Identity.
Email: iislam@holycross.edu
Office Phone:
Office: Beaven 202
Biography
Dr. Inaash Islam earned her Ph.D. and Masters in Sociology from Virginia Tech, and has a bachelors in Sociology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her substantive areas of specialization are race, gender and cultural sociology. Her research examines the post-9/11 implications of anti-Muslim racism, gendered embodiment practices, Islamic feminism, and anti-Black racism in the lives of Muslim women in America. She has a co-authored book with Dr. Saher Selod and Dr. Steve Garner, entitled A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism and has published work in Du Bois Review, Feminist Formations, and the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research.
Publications
Books
2023 Saher Selod, Inaash Islam and Steve Garner. A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism. Polity Press.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2023 Islam, Inaash. “When Modesty Meets Aesthetic Labor: Islamic Modesty as Antithetical to Muslimah Influencers’ Aesthetic Labor,'' Feminist Formations, 35(2): 173-196.
2020 Islam, Inaash. “Muslim American Double Consciousness.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 17(2): 429-448, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X20000235
2019 Islam, Inaash. ‘Redefining #YourAverageMuslim woman: Muslim female digital activism on social media’, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 12(2), pp. 213–233, doi: 10.1386/jammr_00004_1
Book Chapters
2022 David L. Brunsma, Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Joong Won Kim, Steve McGlamery and Inaash Islam. “COVID-19 as White Space: The Collective Perils of Whiteness During the Pandemic.” Book Chapter for Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic. Thomas, Henderson, and Horton (eds), University of Cincinnati Press.
2019 Islam, Inaash. “Mired in Paradox: Black Feminist Approaches to Black Female (Re)presentations On-Screen” in Standpoints: Black Feminist Knowledges edited by Andrea N. Baldwin, Ashley Reichelmann and Kwame Harrison. Virginia Tech Publishing.