Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Judaic Studies and 2020 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Romance Languages and Literatures)
About
Adi Saleem holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. He is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN), an interdisciplinary and international research network of over a hundred scholars of Jewish and Muslim studies. As a scholar of modern and contemporary France, his research and teaching broadly focus on the intersection of race and religion (or religion as race).
Adi is particularly committed to furthering diversity, inclusion, and equity in the academy and mentoring underrepresented students at Michigan.
Current Work:
He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jews and Muslims, which examines genealogies of antisemitism and Islamophobia in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. As part of this broader interest, he is also the editor of Queer Jews, Queer Muslims: Race, Religion, and Representation (Wayne State University Press, 2024).
Research Area Keyword(s):
Cultural studies, decoloniality, postcolonial studies, race and religion, queer studies
