Jauhara Ferguson, pictured with Dinesh Singhal, Nita Singhal, and Prof. Lora Wildenthal

Jauhara Ferguson was awarded the 2025 Seth Balkishan das Singhal Award for the paper “How American Am I? Comparing American Identity among U.S. Black Muslims,” published in the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race in February 2024.

Jauhara graduated from the Sociology doctoral program in May 2025 where she was advised by Prof. Elaine Howard Ecklund.