Bio

Anum Ahmed is a Muslim American writer, educator, and research consultant from California. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and Philosophy (2016), a Masters in Communication (2021), and is now pursuing a doctoral degree at Texas A&M in Media, Identity, Culture. Her research interests lie at the intersections of perceptions of minoritized communities by the general public and issues faced by members within those groups. She has previously written on identity and identification in cults and new religious movements (NRMs), representation of dis/ability, performed race, and religion in television and film, and marriage and divorce narratives within South Asian Muslim communities. She now works as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Communication and Journalism. 

Her work has been recognized by different conference acceptances and awards presented by the institutions she graduated from: she was named a “Compassionate and Innovative Instructor” in her first semester of teaching and received the inaugural “Outstanding Graduate Citizen” award for her leadership throughout her graduate program. She strives to make academia more accessible for others through her instruction, research, and mentorship.