Dr. Sabrina Alimahomed

Research Affiliations:

Dr. Alimahomed is Affiliate Faculty at the at Rutgers Law School. She previously served as an Honorary Research Fellow at and as a Research Fellow in the (CAIR-LA).

Research Interests:

  • Race, gender, class, sexuality; race and racism; gendered Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism; War on Terror; gender and counterterrorism; security and surveillance; transnational feminisms; women of color feminisms

Main Courses:

  • Race, Class, Gender (Soc. 346)
  • Sociology of Gender (Soc. 325)

Education:

  • B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, UC Berkeley
  • M.A., Ph.D. Sociology, UC Riverside

Journal Articles:

  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina and Yazan Zahzah. 2023. “ Critical Security Studies 1-24. 
  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina, Lori Baralt, Araceli Esparza, Analena Hope Hassberg. 2022. Journal of Feminist Scholarship 21(21): 22-45. 
  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina. 2020. “.” , 34.
  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina. 2018. “When the FBI Knocks: Racialized State Surveillance of Muslims.”
  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina. 2017. “Invisible Violence: Gender, Islamophobia, and the Hidden Assault on U.S. Muslim Women.” .
  • Alimahomed, Sabrina. 2014. “Homeland Security Inc.: Public Order, Private Profit.” 55(4): 82-99.
  • Alimahomed, Sabrina. 2011. “.” Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 4(3): 381-397.
  • Alimahomed, Sabrina. 2010. “.” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation, and Culture 16(2): 151-168.
  • Edna Bonacich, Sabrina Alimahomed, and Jake B. Wilson. 2008. “.” American Behavioral Scientist 52(3): 342-355.

Book Chapters:

  • Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2016. “Breaking the ‘Steel Ceiling’: Working-Class Women Resisting Sexism and Racism in the Union” Pp. 155-75, in , Lanham MD: Lexington Books.

Other Research:

  • Alimahomed, Sabrina. 2022. Domestic Policy. 3. 
  • Digital Archive of Oral Histories. 2021. Community based research project with Muslim Abolitionist Futures. 

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships:

  • Co-Principle Investigator. “Innovating Faculty Workloads through an Equity Lens” National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Adaptation Grant ($1 million), 2022-2025.
  • Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2020-2021
  • Faculty Success Program Scholarship, , 2020
  • Honorary Research Fellow at University College London’s , 2018
  • American Fellowship Publication Grant, “Mapping Muslims: FBI Investigations and Surveillance of Muslims in Los Angeles.”  (AAUW), 2016-2017
  • Faculty Mentor Award, Special Recognition, EOP CSULB, 2013-2016
  • Outstanding Student Mentorship Award, Muslim Student Association, CSULB, 2012
  • , Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2009-2010
  • Dean’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2009
  • , American Sociological Association and NIMH, 2006-2008
  • , Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund, 2006
  • , Sociologists for Women in Society, 2005