Fauzia Husain
Assistant Professor
MA/PhD, Sociology, University of Virginia, MA, Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Sociology
Queen's University
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D426
Office Hours By Appointment
Gender; Sexuality; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Globalization; Immigration; Muslim Communities; Islamophobia; Qualitative Methods.
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.
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 senstivity 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.
Book
Husain, Fauzia. 2024. The Stigma Matrix; Gender, Globalization and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women. Stanford University Press
Articles
2020. Husain, Fauzia. “Halal Dating, Purdah and Postfeminism; What Pakistani Women’s Sexual Projects Can Tell Us About Agency.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 45:3, 629-652 https://doi.org/10.1086/706470.
- Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Article Award, Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association
2022. Husain, Fauzia. “Dead Goat on the Runway. Incongruent Performance, Affective Citizenship and Gender.” Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101616
Book Chapters
2022. Husain, Fauzia. “Veiled Sociology. The Epistemologies of Purdah and Two-Boat Ethnography.” in Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries. Edited by Smitha Radhakrishnan and Gowri Vijayakumar. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7_6
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