She received a PhD in Media Studies from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, with a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She has an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School University in New York City and a B.A. in English Literature and Communications from the University of Kansas. She is a feminist media scholar, who is particularly concerned with the ways that feminism is mobilized in the public discourse on the war on terror, and how this impacts the project of enacting transnational/cross-cultural feminist alliances with women in the “Muslim world.”