Kathleen M. Moore is Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara.  She is also affiliated with the UCSB Law and Society Program and the Center for Middle East Studies. With postgraduate degrees in political science and law, Professor Moore has written about the political and jurisprudential thought of Muslims living in the United States and the United Kingdom; U.S. law as it affects Muslims (anti-discrimination laws, constitutional law); popular attitudes about Islam and Muslims in the United States; and Muslim women in America.

Research Interests: Immigration, Muslim communities in the West (e.g., U.S., U.K.), religion and law, Islamic law, civil rights and liberties, cultural pluralism, cultural studies.

Recent Publications:
"'United We Stand': American Attitudes toward (Muslim) Immigration Post- September 11th." Muslim World vol. 92, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 39- 58.

"A Part of US or A Part from US? Post September 11th Attitudes towards Muslims and Civil Liberties in the United States." MERIP vol. 32, no. 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 32-35.

"The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998." In Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds.), Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2002.

"The Hijab and Religious Liberty: U.S. Anti-Discrimination Law and Muslim Women in the United States." Yvonne Y. Haddad and John L. Esposito(eds.).

Muslims on the Americanization Path?: 129-158. Atlanta: Scholars Press (cloth, 1998) and Oxford University Press (paper 1999).