Evelyn Alsultany

Representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. Media; Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Racism/Racialization of Muslims; Arab American Studies and Muslim American Studies; Cultural Studies and Media Studies; Race, Popular Culture, and Cultural Politics

Evelyn Alsultany is a Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity.

Alsultany is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (New York University Press, 2022), which was listed as one of the 10 best scholarly books of 2022 by The Chronicle of Higher Education and Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012), which was listed as on of the best books about Hollywood of all time by the Los Angeles Times. She is co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2011), winner of the Arab American National Museum’s Evelyn Shakir Book Award, and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2013).

Prior to her position at USC, Alsultany was an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan where she co-founded and directed of the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) program.

Professor Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. She has served as a consultant for Hollywood studios on how to better represent Muslim characters. She co-authored the Obeidi-Alsultany Test to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims and has a podcast, “Muslims As Seen on TV.” She has published op-eds in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time.

• Ph.D. Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 2005
• M.A. Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, The New School for Social Research, 1998
• B.A. Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 1995