Jen'nan Ghazal Read is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Health at Duke University. Read's research focuses on gender and ethnicity, the sociology of religion and health, and the assimilation experiences of Arab Americans and U.S. Muslims. Read is the author of Culture, Class and Work Among Arab-American Women (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2004) and has published numerous scholarly articles on how race, ethnicity and gender affect health outcomes in the U.S., particularly for Arab women.