Zein Murib is an assistant professor of Political Science at Fordham University whose research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of scholarship on gender and sexuality, interest groups and social movements, and marginalized political identities in US politics. Integrating these fields allows Murib to ask questions that are central to the study of politics, such as: How and to what effect do particular groups become salient and legible political identity categories? Through what processes, both inside and outside of political institutions, are agendas of interests for groups developed? And how do agendas of certain interests come to be associated with particular groups in politics?  Animating these three broad questions is concern for how it is that inequalities are produced both between and within groups, often with consequences for the most vulnerable members: people of color, women, those who do not confirm to binary gender norms, people living in poverty, people with disabilities, and those who are undocumented.

Murib's academic research has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Politics & Gender, American Politics Research, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and New Political Science. Links to these articles as well as information about forthcoming publications can be found on the Publications page of this website.

Murib is available for commentary on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race; intersectionality and critical race theory, and political movements. Murib is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post's MonkeyCage and is also a member of the New York City chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. 

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