Dr. Katherine Bullock

Dr. Katherine Bullock is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, where she also completed her Ph.D. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, Islamophobia, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, media representations of Islam and Muslims, and Muslim perspectives on zakat and Basic Income. She was the editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences from 2003 – 2008 and the Vice-President of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America from 2006 – 2009.
 
Her publications include Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves (University of Texas Press), and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes (International Institute of Islamic Thought), which has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Malayalam, Tamil, and Turkish.  Her latest research studies how Canadian Muslim healthcare workers cope with workplace anti-Muslim racism.
 
She is also a TV host for Sound Vision Foundation’s Muslim News Canada, and the President of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Originally from Australia, she embraced Islam in 1994.