Biography

Anum Ahmed is an American Muslim 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 focusing on Media, Identity, Culture. She considers herself to be a critical qualitative researcher who studies narratives in interpersonal, public, and mediated contexts.

Her research lies 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, race, and religion within television and film, and the ways marriage, divorce, and pregnancy loss have been communicated about amongst South Asian families. She now works as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Communication and Journalism.