November 13, 2025
Prior to Dr. Saher Selod's upcoming Clarke Forum program, we will host a reception in the 1st floor living room / dining room area of our building (249 West Louther St.).
Join us for food, beverages, and conversation with the speaker! If planning to attend, please RSVP via EngageD or email clarkeforum@dickinson.edu and let us know if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions.
The lecture, “Muslims and the Global War on Terror: How the Racialization of Muslims Justifies the Expansion of Policing and Surveillance,” will take place on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium (ATS), 360 W. Louther St. This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Selod will discuss her most recent co-authored book,, published on Polity Press in 2024. The book examines how Muslims experience racialization on a global scale. With special attention paid to the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom, the authors examine both the unique national contexts and – crucially – the shared characteristics of anti-Muslim racism. In this presentation she will discuss how a range of counterterrorism policies, from hyper-surveillance to racialized policing, and the ensuing representation of Islam, have worked across borders to justify and institutionalize an acceptable, state-sponsored face of racism against Muslims.
This program is presented by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of religion, American studies, educational studies, political science, sociology, and the Middle East Studies program. This program is part of the Clarke Forum’s.
Biography (provided by the speaker)
Saher Selod is the current director of research for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. She was formerly an associate professor and previous chair of the Department of Sociology at Simmons University in Boston, MA. Her research expertise centers on the experiences of Muslims with surveillance. In her first book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press 2018) examines how Muslim men and Muslim women experience gendered forms of racialization through their hyper surveillance because of the War on Terror. Her co-authored second book, (Polity Press 2024) examines how the Global War on Terror has justified the detention, imprisonment, and hyper surveillance of Muslims in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and China.
Further information
- Location: The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues
- Time: 5:30 pm - 6:40 pm
- Cost: Free