Bilal Nasir

Bilal Nasir is an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies at Pomona College, where he teaches and researches at the intersections of anthropology, critical race theory, and science & technology studies. His work centers on policing, surveillance, secularism, and Muslim communities in the United States.

Education

• PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Northwestern University (2020)

Research Interests

Nasir’s scholarship engages the anthropology of Muslims and Islam within the United States, focusing on how policing and surveillance regimes shape racialized Muslim lives. Drawing on critical race studies and science & technology studies, he examines secularism as a political and cultural formation, explores social movements as sites of resistance, and analyzes the entanglements of technology with processes of racialization and governance.

Courses Taught

• ASAM 070 Surveillance: An Introduction
• ASAM 115 Theory and Methods
• ASAM 142 South Asian American Studies
• ASAM 143 Race and Policing
• ASAM 144 Anti-Muslim Racism: A Global Perspective