Lamiyah (LB) Bahrainwala

Lamiyah Bahrainwala (or LB) specializes in rhetorics of gender, anti-Muslim sentiment, feminist surveillance studies, and race. Her published work examines bizarre iterations of transnational anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-Blackness in mediated texts. Her articles appear in leading journals, including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication, Culture and Critique, and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, in addition to creative venues. Her research has been recognized with the 2022 Rhetoric Society of America Fellows’ Award and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, among others.

 

Additionally, LB is involved in community education and has given talks to parents at various K-12 schools about how to talk about race with their children. She also secured a national grant to organize a Muslims in Academia Symposium, and served as Chair of the Feminist and Gender Studies Division for the National Communication Association.

 

LB has a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in Rhetoric from Michigan State University, and a BA in English from the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where she grew up.