Saher Selod, "Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
How does a specific American religious identity acquire racial meaning? What happens when we move beyond phenotypes and include clothing, names, and behaviors to the characteristics that inform ethnoracial categorization? Forever Suspect, Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Te…
Gaza, Harris, Trump and the Muslim vote: MEMO in Conversation with Saher Selod
Millions of Muslims in the US have said Gaza is the most important election issue for them, but with the frontrunners in the presidential election being Israel supporters Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, how will they vote?
On 5 November, Americans will take to the polls to pick the 47th president o…
Islamophobia and ethno-nationalist populism
In episode 17 of Unpacking Islamophobia, Bridge Associate Director speaks with Dr. Saher Selod, an Associate Professor and previous Chair of the Department of Sociology at Simmons University in Boston, MA. They discuss Islamophobia and ethno-nationalist populism in the United States, specifically t…
The Danger Islamophobia Poses to American Democracy
Islamophobia doesn’t just harm Muslims–it endangers everyone. In the years since 9/11, policies driven by anti-Muslim sentiment have expanded government surveillance, empowered immigration enforcement, and undermined civil liberties across the board.
In this episode of Deep Dives with ISPU, Tuqa N…
Inside the Data: Unpacking the Findings from ISPU’s American Muslim Poll 2025
The American Muslim story is constantly evolving — and ISPU’s American Muslim Poll has been tracking it for nearly a decade. In this episode of Deep Dives, ISPU’s Director of Research and report co-author Saher Selod, PhD, joins Executive Director Tuqa Nusairat to unpack key findings from the 2025 …
From Screen to Policy: The Real-World Impact of Stereotypical Muslim Portrayals on TV
Entertainment media portrayals don’t just shape culture—they shape policy. For decades, Muslims in film and television have often been depicted through narrow and harmful stereotypes. New research from ISPU shows those portrayals have measurable consequences, influencing public attitudes toward Mus…
As the definition of “terrorist” expands, so does state violence
The Trump administration has called more and more groups “terrorists,” from “narco-terrorists” in Ecuador to people who protest ICE to the entire Democratic party. But it’s also nothing new. We talk to Saher Selod, expert on the racialized surveillance of Muslims about the effects of the war on ter…
A Stat That Stuck: Three Data Points, One Story
When we asked our team a simple question — what’s one ISPU data point that has stayed with you — we expected a range of answers.
Instead, a clear pattern emerged.
Across data on civic engagement, discrimination, and persistent stereotypes, one throughline connected them all: the gap between how Ame…
Ep. 110 - Leaving Academia #10: Building a New Career in Public Policy (with Dr. Saher Selod)
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Many academics reach a point where they start wondering whether they can continue doing this work in the same way for the rest of their career. But even when those questions start surfacing, leaving academia can still feel almost impossible to imagine.
In this episode, I talk with …
25 Years After 9/11: Why Is Anti-Muslim Hate Still Rising? W/ Saher Selod
Dr. Saher Selod, is a sociologist and researcher whose work focuses on Islamophobia, racialization, surveillance, and the experiences of Muslim Americans. She is the author of Forever Suspect: Radicalized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror and coauthor of A Global Racial Enemy: M…
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