This project examines the impact that 9/11 has had on the everyday lives of Muslim Americans. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with South Asian and Arab American Muslim men and women living in the Chicago area, the data reveals Muslim Americans have been subjected to the …
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The purpose of this project was to locate a potential funding source and write a grant to create a social services program at the Islamic Center of South Bay. A thorough literature review was conducted to better understand the needs of Muslims in the United States of America. In…
This dissertation examines the developmental identity trajectories of second-generation Muslim American women (MAW). Specifically, it answers if, how, and why young MAW’s experiences and identity development processes differ from their peer groups, placing these questions within…
This dissertation is a study of the political behavior of Arab Americans based on the Detroit Arab American Study of 2003. It examines the dependent variables of voting, writing to politicians and donating money to political campaigns. The independent variables include two socio…
Apart from the wide-scale media attention that Arabs and Muslims have received in the United States and abroad since 9/11, these two target populations have been largely unexamined at both the two-year and four-year college levels. This dissertation study represents a pioneering…
Our war is not against Islam.....Our war is a war against evil... -President George W. Bush. Despite President Bush's rhetoric attempting to separate Muslims in general from terrorists who adhere to the Islamic faith, the policies of the War on Terror have generally focused on M…
The Muslim American population is progressively growing and is the second largest religion in the United States. Muslim Americans have also experienced an increase in racial and religious victimization post 9/11 (Elver, 2012). With the rate of growth in this population and ongoi…
The events of September 11, 2001 increased occurrences of prejudice and discrimination toward Muslims and individuals identified as Muslims. In 2010, a proposal of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero sparked controversy and opinion polls indicated Americans experienced negative o…
Since death is the only real certainty in life, it is necessary to understand how individuals respond to mortality salience and how it impacts others within our society including outgroup members. Within ethnically and religious diverse communities across the U.S., religion rela…
The purpose of this study was to identify the important factors influencing Muslim Americans, 18 years of age and above, to attend (in person) or watch (on television) professional team sport events. Furthermore, important theory of planned behavior (TPB) factors were identified…
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to explore and identify obstacles Muslim Americans in the United States working within the legal field experienced in advancing to leadership positions and the influence of mentoring. The two cases included 10 Muslim Amer…
The purpose of this research is to explore the state of post-9/11 Muslim American philanthropy within The Greater Kansas City Area. Since 2001, the U.S. government has expanded its counterterrorism policies to target sources of terrorist funding and in particular the charitable …
A series of tragic and near-catastrophic events – from Fort Hood to Times Square – have renewed fears of so-called “homegrown” terrorism. Analysts and researchers, in turn, have begun to question previously held assumptions about America’s Muslim communities: Are Muslim-American…
While Muslim Americans are one of the fastest growing communities in the United States, very little is known about their mental health needs or concerns. In an effort to better understand their mental health needs, this study explores the attitudes towards the diagnosis and trea…
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the United States, with a population of nearly 3.45 million Muslims. In spite of this large and growing number, little research has been collected in assessing the attitudes of Muslims in America towards mental illness and psychot…
This dissertation examines the effects of religious narratives on the political and social behavior of Shi'a Muslims in the contemporary United States. It finds that American Shi'as utilize the narratives of Shi'ism instrumentally, in support of their already formed political an…
Research on the role of Islam in the civic and political life of Muslim Americans is still in its infancy. Work investigating such issues has been mostly qualitative, normative, and in the opinion of this author lacking in its empirical rigor. My hope in this dissertation is to …
From Orientalism to American Ummah tracks the discursive production of "Islam"-- as religion, stereotype, racial signifier, marker of identity, and global culture--upon what writer Toni Morrison has called the "wholly racialized" terrains of the contemporary U.S. I follow this f…
In this project, I use anthropological, sociological, and ethnographic methodologies to interrogate the production of religious knowledge and concepts surrounding authority and authenticity for U.S. Muslims in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. First, I ask who exercises interpret…