Muneezah Rizvi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on Islam, philanthropy, and securitization, with a focus on the involvement of British Muslims in the Syrian war. She is currently a contributing editor for the American Anthropologist and a volunteer copy editor for The Abolitionist. Her own work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Re Orient, and the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences.