Amin Asfari

Asfari is an interdisciplinary scholar.  Asfari's areas of expertise are in public policy, criminal justice reform, prejudice and race, with an emphasis on Islamophobia.  Asfari's ongoing scholarship seeks to understand the construction of Muslims as the “other,” and to identify the public policies that foster and legitimize this label. Asfari is working to develop an integrated theoretical model that explains the processes “othering" which draws from various disciplines and methodological approaches to fine-tune our understanding of Islamophobia.  Asfari’s research contributes to the empirical understanding of American Muslims, a historically understudied group.  Asfari's, work specifically seeks to inform the criminological and sociological discourse by engaging with this community through empirically sound and culturally sensitive ways.