Fauzia Husain

Fauzia Husain

Assistant Professor

MA/PhD, Sociology, University of Virginia, MA, Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University

Sociology

成人大片 University

fauzia.husain@queensu.ca

(613) 533-6000, ext. 75763

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D426

Office Hours By Appointment

People Directory Affiliation Category

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 鈥済ender ideology鈥 in public schools. This includes both, responses to the imposition of comprehensive curricula in public schools, as well as anxieties around the introduction of 鈥渓iberal鈥 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鈥, teachers鈥, or students鈥 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. Stanford University Press

Articles

2020.  Husain, Fauzia. 鈥淗alal Dating, Purdah and Postfeminism; What Pakistani Women鈥檚 Sexual Projects Can Tell Us 成人大片 Agency.鈥 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 45:3, 629-652 

  •  Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Article Award, Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association

2022. Husain, Fauzia. 鈥淒ead Goat on the Runway. Incongruent Performance, Affective Citizenship and Gender.鈥 Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. 

Book Chapters

2022. Husain, Fauzia. 鈥淰eiled Sociology. The Epistemologies of Purdah and Two-Boat Ethnography.鈥 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鈥 Leadership Program, US Dept. of State.

University-wide

2018    Bierstedt Prize for best graduate paper.

2017    Dean鈥檚 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