Dr. Najwa Mayer joined UC Davis in Fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies as well as affiliate faculty in the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program and the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Her scholarship broadly examines the relations among culture, capitalism, and U.S. imperialism, with particular attention to the War on Terror and its Cold War continuities. Her areas of research and teaching include histories and critiques of U.S. imperialism and militarism; Islam and Muslim movements in the U.S.; critical refugee and migration studies; cultural studies; and Third World feminisms.