received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Harvard University in 2011. His primary interests include social movements, social policies, and collective identity. He is currently completing a book manuscript about how social movement organizations shape the representation of Islam in the American public sphere. As a scholar, he plans to study social movements working to transform public understandings of Autism. After completing the program he will assume a position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.