Sharmin Sadequee is a cultural anthropologist of religion and secularism with a research focus on Islam and Muslims in North America. Her research explores how human beings construct and are constructed by their social, political, and legal structures, and by their natural and built environment in a globalized world. She has spent the last 15 years researching and recording the experiences of settler-immigrant and natural-born American Muslims affected by surveillance, terrorism prosecutions, and securitized prisons, and their engagement in social justice movements. Her research also includes Muslim American experiences of disputes over religious land use in Islamic cemetery and mosque constructions and environmental sustainability. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and engaged in the fields of law, religious studies, Islamic studies, secularism studies, political science, environmental studies, and colonialism. She has held a post-doctoral position at the University of Alberta-Augustana and earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Michigan State University.