Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11

Based on the speaker's recent publication of the same name.

Louise Cainkar is a sociologist and assistant professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences. She teaches courses in the social welfare and justice, sociology and anthropology majors. Her areas of expertise include Arab American studies; Muslims in the United States and immigration integration.

Prior to joining Marquette, Professor Cainkar worked mainly in the human rights and social welfare and justice non-profit sectors and as a consulting researcher. She was a research fellow at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Great Cities Institute from 1998-2005, when she completed data analysis for her three-year ethnographic study of the impact of the September 11th attacks on the Arabs and Muslims in the United States, which was funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Major study conclusions appear in her forthcoming book from the Russell Sage Foundation Press [Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American Experience after 9/11] available Spring 2009.

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