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Research Interests

Gender; Sexuality; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Globalization; Immigration; Muslim Communities; Islamophobia; Qualitative Methods.

Supervision

As a cultural sociologist interested in understanding how people make and negotiate meanings around sexuality; how they deal with cultural contradictions and cultural change; and how they forge distinctions and belonging, I welcome students interested in cultural sociology, topics related to gender and sexuality, cultural change, and immigration.

My current research examines how Muslim immigrants navigate contemporary moral panics surrounding sex education and “gender ideology” in public schools. This includes both, responses to the imposition of comprehensive curricula in public schools, as well as anxieties around the introduction of “liberal” practices, such as sensitivity around the use of pronouns. I welcome both MA and PhD students interested in any of the following broad topics:

• Sex education (e.g., the comprehensive curriculum, media coverage of the comprehensive curriculums, or parents’, teachers’, or students’ views about the curriculum),
• Moral panics around sexuality, sexual ideology, and public schools from Muslims or other groups (in the US, Canada or elsewhere)
• Questions around the social and cultural integration of Muslim immigrants in western societies (any context). This can include topics such as dating, friendships, headscarves, immigrant experiences with institutions such as schools, integration into the job market etc.
• Islamophobia.

Students interested in topics related to cultural sociology or the sociology of sex and gender are also welcome to reach out.

Biography

Fauzia Husain received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 2019, before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in Signs and Poetics and her research has been supported by a number of scholarships and grants, including from the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Fulbright Program.

Awards

National (USA)

• 2021 Distinguished Article Award from the Sociology of Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association.
• 2019 Honorable Mention, Shils-Coleman Award, Theory section, American Sociological Association
• 2017 American Association of University Women International Doctoral Fellowship
• 2017 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

International

• 2007 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship.
• 2005 US International Visitors’ Leadership Program, US Dept. of State.

University-wide

• 2018 Bierstedt Prize for best graduate paper.
• 2017 Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined).
• 2016 Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2015 The Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• 2015 Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation Grant.
• 2015 Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Award