I am an assistant professor in the department of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, which is a small undergraduate university on the east coast of Canada (NS). I have been at this university since 2010. I teach second and third year courses in the area of Islamic Studies (Introduction to Classical Islamic Tradition, Islam in the Modern World, Islam in North America, and, beginning Winter 2014, Islam and Muslim Culture in Film). I also teach a first year course on world religions and health. My research interests are in religion and migration and comparative Christian-Muslim theology. I completed my doctoral work at Concordia University in 2009 under the supervision of Dr. Lynda Clarke. My dissertation, entitled Texts of Tension, Spaces of Empowerment: Migrant Muslims and the Limits of Shi'ite Legal Discourse, was a discourse analysis of Shi'ite fatawa issued for Muslims in the West. In my M.A., completed in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, I did a comparative study of Ali Shariati and Latin American Christian liberation theology through the lens of their interpretations of Abraham. I am interested in studying theological and religious perspectives on migration and exile in the Abrahamic traditions.

"The Shi'ite Law of Migration (hijrah): What does Mississauga have in Common with Medina?" Studies in Religion. Wilfred Laurier University Press. Forthcoming issue. Accepted. “Globalizing Islam One fatwa at a Time: Shi'ite Legal Discourse on Migration” in Patrice Brodeur, ed., Islam, Pluralism and Globalization: Reproductions and Paradigm Shifts. De Gruyter Press. Date of publication not known.

Modern Shi'ite legal thought on migration to the West, Islam in North America, Muslim-Christian relations.

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Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University