Khanum Shaikh

Khanum Shaikh is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliated faculty at the Middle East and Islamic Studies program at California State University Northridge (CSUN). She also serves as the co-director of the Center for Civil Discourse and Social Change. She earned her Ph D. in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. Prior to joining CSUN she was a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include transnational feminism, Muslim women’s religious agency, gender and social movements, and the intersections of race/gender in North American Muslim communities. She has published in numerous journals including: Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies; Feminist Formations; and Feminist Studies (forthcoming). She has lived most of her life between Los Angeles and Lahore.