Assistant Professor in the Department of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
About
Aneesa A. Baboolal, PhD is an assistant professor in the department of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. Her research interests include violence against women across intersecting identities, including race/ethnicity, immigrant, and religious minority status. She has conducted studies examining Caribbean women's experiences of intimate partner violence in ethnic enclave communities. Dr. Baboolal's work has been featured in the Global Agenda for Social Justice, the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence and has been presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA), the American Society of Criminology (ASC), The Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Her most recent research project examines how diverse Muslim communities respond to gendered and racialized violence in the United States after September 11th and in more recent year
Current Work:
Dr. Baboolal's research interests include gender-based violence across overlapping social identities including, race/ethnicity, immigrant, and religious minority status. My interest in gender-based violence initially emerged from my local community ("Little Guyana") and my ties to the Caribbean. Her current scholarship examines how diverse Muslim communities respond to gender-based and racially motivated violence in the United States after September 11th, 2001 (including the impact of the War on Terror), and in more recent years.
Research Areas
- gender; race; ethnicity; victimization; immigrant; diversity; bias; hate crimes; anti-Muslin racism
