Samiha Rahman
Samiha Rahman, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Human Development
- Email: Samiha.Rahman@csulb.edu
- Phone: (562) 985-8267
- Office location: FO2-213
- Office hours for Fall 2024: By appointment on Mondays @ 12:30pm-2:30pm. Please email Dr. Rahman for an appointment.
Education
- Ph.D. (2020), M.A. (2016) University of Pennsylvania, Africana Studies & Education (joint degree)
- B.A. (2012) Columbia University, History, Ethnicity & Race Studies
Research Interests
Dr. Samiha Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Human Development at California State University Long Beach. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship and teaching examine how young people and their families engage race, religion, and education to achieve justice and liberation. Her research has garnered supported from the Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the Fulbright-Hayes.
Her first book, Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care, is under contract with NYU Press. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic engagement, the book tells the stories of a multi-generational community of Black Muslims in the Tijani Sufi tariqa who live, learn, and strive for liberation between the U.S. and Senegal. Her other ongoing research project focuses on the experiences and world-making practices of Black Muslim college students in the U.S. It examines how they sustain joy and resistance in the face of intersectional marginalization.
Teaching
- HDEV 180: Lifespan Human Development
- HDEV 310: Qualitative Methods in Human Development
- HDEV 327: Approaches to Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
- HDEV 403: The Acquisition of Cultural Socialization in Cross-cultural Perspectives
Recent Publications
- Rahman, S. (2023). From American to Cisse: Sufism and the Remaking of Diasporic Ties Across the Atlantic. Africa, 93(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197202300027X
- Rahman, S., & Johnson, W. F. (2023). Within and Beyond Public Education: Black Communities’ Historical and Contemporary Struggles in Pursuit of Educational Justice. Journal of Negro Education, 92(3), 287-300.
- Rahman, S. (2021). Black Muslim Brilliance: Confronting Antiblackness and Islamophobia Through Transnational Educational Migration. Curriculum Inquiry, 51(1), 57-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2020.1831368.
- Gadsden, V. L., Rahman, S., & Johnson, W. F. (2019). Civic Knowledge, Engagement, and Participation: Narratives of Youth of Color in Urban Schools. Peabody Journal of Education, 94(1), 78-96.