Tahseen Shams received her PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. Her research interests are international migration, globalization, race/ethnicity, and nationalism. The question that guides all her research pursuits is how transnational, global forms of inequality intersect with local forms of boundary-work to affect immigrant groups, particularly those coming from Muslim-majority countries to the West. Her work has received several grants and awards, including funding from the National Science Foundation, and an Honorable Mention for Best Article from the Global and Transnational Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. In addition to her book, Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World (Stanford University Press 2020), she has sole-authored several articles in top-tier journals. Visit her website tahseenshams.org for more information.