Assistant Professor of Religion
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas

Dr. Sajida Jalalzai is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is an expert in the study of North American Islam. Jalalzai earned her PhD from Columbia University, specializing in American Religions. Her ethnographic research focuses on Muslim leadership education in the United States and Canada. She examines these programs’ contributions to the creation of new professional fields, such as Muslim chaplaincy, and also questions the interfaith logics that they promote.