Zein Murib

Zein Murib is an associate professor of political science and affiliated faculty with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. Murib’s research and teaching interests are informed by feminist and queer theory and located at the intersection of scholarship on gender and sexuality, interest groups and social movements, and marginalized political identities in U.S. politics. Murib’s first book is Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity (Oxford University Press, 2023).


The U.S. Census plans to add questions about gender

Political science research can help fine-tune these questions.

New findings from the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey

New state-level bills targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans add to these individuals' concerns.

Good to Know: Intersectionality

It’s a way of looking at how laws, institutions, and identities are shaped by numerous interlocking forces such as bias about race, sex, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexuality.

What U.S. trans activists can learn from Bolivia

Changing laws and attitudes can require interim trade-offs – and close links with a political party.

This Virginia case pits trans kids’ rights against religious freedom

It’s another volley in the religious right’s effort to stop LGBTQ advances, with similar lawsuits underway in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.

Transgender candidates win elections. Here’s why.

Some research suggests the wave of trans candidates’ wins is unexpected.