Dr. Samah Choudhury is a visiting faculty member and researcher with the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity for the 2023-2024 academic year, where she will be working on her first book, American Muslim and the Politics of Secularity. Her scholarship surrounds notions of humor, subjecthood, religion, and race in the 21st-century United States. How has “a sense of humor” come to be cultivated as a positive personality trait, and where does the American Muslim subject configure against those broader secular confines? Choudhury is also an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ithaca College, where she teaches courses on religion, race, pop culture, and Islam.