Professor Dr. Nafeesa Andrabi

Biography

Nafeesa Andrabi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, specializing in sociology. Her primary research interests are in social demography, race, religion, and nativity, focusing on how these intersect to shape stress and health outcomes across the life course, particularly among multigenerational Muslim immigrants. Andrabi is currently investigating the relationship between sociopolitical stress and adverse reproductive health outcomes in Muslim immigrant populations, employing large-scale administrative data and a combination of quantitative and experimental methods alongside interviews. Her research also extends to examining groups that do not fit neatly into ethnoracial categories, such as Muslims, with an aim to advance the conceptualization of global structural racism. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Her work has received funding from prominent organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the American Sociology Association.

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