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Research Interests:

Nafeesa Andrabi is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, a Research Assistant Professor in the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research, and a Scholar with the Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT) in the Biomedical Sciences at University of Michigan. She is a sociologist and social demographer who primarily examines how and why race, religion, and nativity intersect to shape stress and health across the life course among multigenerational Muslim immigrants in the US. Andrabi is currently studying the relationship between sociopolitical stress and adverse reproductive health outcomes among Muslim immigrants using large-scale administrative data, quantitative experimental methods and interviews. In a related line of research, Andrabi examines groups that do not neatly fall within ethnoracial categories, like Muslims, can be integrated into and advance our conceptualization of global structural racism.

She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. At Carolina, she was a T32 Biosocial Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociology Association, and the Society of Family Planning.