Nafeesa Andrabi

assistant professor of Sociology and research assistant professor in Population Studies Center

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Dr. Nafeesa Andrabi’s research broadly focuses on how and why race, religion, and nativity intersect to shape stress and health outcomes among Muslims in America. She is currently studying the relationship between sociopolitical stress and adverse reproductive health outcomes among Muslim immigrants using large-scale administrative data and quantitative experimental methods. 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 National Institutes of Health.