Layla Abdullah-Poulos

I attained a B.A. in Historical Studies and Literature at SUNY Empire State College. I am presently a student in the School for Graduate Studies’ Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program.

The knowledge I acquired in both my undergraduate and present graduate studies afforded me numerous opportunities to present her research to fellow students at SUNY Empire State College Student Academic Conferences (2013, 2014) as well as professionals in her field, including: the Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference (2014) and PCA/ACA National Conferences (2014, 2015).

My current research focuses on the emerging Islamic-American hybrid culture and endeavors to shed a critical cultural lens on native-born African-American, Euro-American, and Latino-American Muslim identities. My master’s thesis project will explore the diverse works of Native-born American (NbA) Muslim women authors as cultural artifacts and utilize them as signifying representations of the divergent NbA Muslim culture in American society. .