Jauhara Ferguson is a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University in the Department of Sociology. She currently works as a Graduate Scholar in the Religion and Public Life Center at the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance. As a sociologist of religion, race, and immigration, she studies Black and Muslim American communities as sites that inform sociological understandings of racial inequality and immigrant integration. Her current research examines the impact of religion, race, nativity, and gender in the process of Black Muslim marriage formation in the United States. Jauhara is an Atlanta native and a proud graduate of Spelman College, where she completed her undergraduate studies in International Studies and Religious Studies.
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Research Areas
Religion; race and ethnicity; immigration; family; gender; qualitative methods
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Rice University (expected May 2025)
M.A. in Sociology, Rice University, 2021
B.A. in International Studies, Spelman College, 2017
Societies & Organizations
American Academy of Religion
Association of Black Sociologists
American Sociological Association
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Society for the Study of Social Problems
National Alumnae Association of Spelman College
Mellon Mays Fellow Professional Network
Honors & Awards
Rice University Walter and Helen Hall Best Graduate Student Paper Award (2024)
Boniuk Institute Graduate Fellowship (2023-2024)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Dissertation Travel and Research Grant (2023)
Rice University Social Science Research Institute Award Recipient (2022)
Boniuk Institute Reading Religion Salon Award (2022)
Min Zhou Research Grant (2021)