Asif Majid is a scholar-artist-educator-consultant working at the intersection of racialized sociopolitical identities, multimedia, marginality, and new performance, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre, making improvisational music, and addressing the nexus of Islam and performance. He has been an Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellow with the Arab American National Museum, a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow with the San Francisco Arts Commission, and a Lab Fellow with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is at work on his latest book, Making Muslimness: Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester, which is forthcoming with Routledge in 2025. From 2023-25, he will be consulting with AEP on a racial equity-focused redesign of the search criteria and review process for the ArtsEdSearch database. Asif is online at www.asifmajid.com.