Dr. Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson

Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. She is currently a Faculty Equity Advocate in the College of Liberal Arts. She has published her research in various journals includingGender and Society, Critical Sociology, Race and Class, and Women, Gender, and Families of Color on the topics of gendered Islamophobia and state violence, FBI racialized surveillance and gendered counterterrorism, and the profiteering of private capital in the War on Terror. She is an Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers Law School. She previously served as an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London’s Centre for the Study of Education in Muslim Contexts. She has served on the National Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Board for the American Sociological Association, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and as the campus CSU Long Beach Chair for the California Faculty Association’s Racial and Social Justice Council.

While growing up, Sabrina’s family became homeless, so she left high school early to work, eventually attending community college and transferring to UC Berkeley. She went on to earn her MA and PhD at UC Riverside. As a queer cis woman of color with straight passing privileges, she organizes with grassroots community organizations that are working towards the abolition of the War on Terror while attending to the intersections of state violence and gender-based violence. In partnership with these community organizations, she is building a digital community-based archive of oral histories that feature grassroots activists who have resisted and organized against the War on Terror, including centering the stories of Muslim women, femmes, queer, and non-binary Muslim activists who have been instrumental to this work.