Sylvia Chan-Malik

Sylvia Chan-Malik is a scholar of American studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Her research focuses on the history of Islam in the United States, specifically the lives of U.S. Muslim women and the rise of anti-Muslim racism in 20th-21st-century America. More broadly, she studies the intersections of race, gender, and religion, and how these categories interact in struggles for social justice. She is currently Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she directs the Social Justice program and teaches courses on race and ethnicity in the United States, Islam in/and America, social justice movements, Islam and gender, feminist methodologies, multiethnic literature and culture in the U.S., and 20-21st century U.S. history.

She speaks frequently on issues of U.S. Muslim politics and culture, Islam and gender, and racial and gender politics in the U.S., and her commentary and writing has appeared in venues such as NPR, Slate News, The Intercept, Middle East Eye, Daily Beast, PRI, Huffington Post, Patheos, Religion News Service, and more.

She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. from Mills College in Creative Writing.