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Tabassum Fahim Ruby is Associate Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the author of Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada (2019). Her research centers on Islam and gender discourses, and on modernity and secularism. In 2018, she was awarded Provost Research Grant (PRG) for her new book project: Religion and Globalization: The Silent Transformations in the Lives of Pakistani Women. More details about her research and scholarship may be found here.

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Dr. Ruby obtained a Ph.D. in Women's Studies (now Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies) from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2010. She also earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Women's Studies. Prior to joining West Chester in 2016, Dr. Ruby held a postdoctoral faculty position in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Western Michigan University, and an instructor position in the Departments of American Culture Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University.