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Katherine Bullock

Katherine Bullock is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, media representations of Islam and Muslims, and Muslim perspectives on 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 (North America) from 2006–2009. Her most recent work is a pioneering study of Muslim philanthropy in Canada. Past publications include audience analysis studies of I Dream of Jeannie and Aladdin; Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves; and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes, which has been translated into Arabic, French, Malayalam, and Turkish. Over the last few decades, she has co-founded and sat on the boards of several grassroots organizations. She is currently President of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Originally from Australia, she lives in Oakville with her husband and children. She embraced Islam in 1994.