Nancy A. Khalil is an Assistant Professor in Arab and Muslim American Studies at the Department of American Culture of the University of Michigan. Previously, she served as an Instructor of Muslim Ministry at Harvard Divinity School and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. One of Khalil’s recent projects explored the politics of American Islam through in-depth ethnographic research on Islamic higher education institutes and religious clerics—imams—in the United States.