Anum Ahmed

Anum Ahmed is an American Muslim writer, educator, and research consultant from California. She holds a Bachelors degree in Communication Studies and Philosophy (2016), a Masters in Communication (2021), and is now pursuing a doctoral degree at Texas A&M University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of personal and public perceptions of minoritized groups. She has previously written on identity and identification in cults and new religious movements (NRMs), mediated representations of dis/ability, gender, race, and religion, power and identity management within the classroom, and marriage and divorce narratives within South Asian Muslim families. She now works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication and Journalism.

Anum strives to make academia more accessible for others through her instruction, research, and mentorship. She was named a “Compassionate and Innovative Instructor” in her first ever semester of teaching, received the inaugural “Outstanding Graduate Citizen” award during her Masters, and won the 2024 “Graduate Community Award” from CMJR. Her identities are at the heart of her work; they inform the way she constructs lesson plans and research questions, explores existing literature, interacts with data, and how she engages with her peers, students, and other scholars.

Courses Taught

• COMM 203: Public Speaking
• COMM 210: Group Communication