Farha Ternikar, Ph.D.
- Professor Anthropology, Criminology, & Sociology
- Program Director Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Farha Ternikar is a full professor in Sociology, and the director of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Le Moyne College. She teaches courses in Sociology, Food and culture, feminist theory, and race, gender and pop culture.
She has authored several articles on gender, race and religious identity in the Journal of Ethnic Studies, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and Sociology Compass.
Her current manuscript “Faith and Food Networks: Muslim women’s acts of resistance and resilience in the American Diaspora” examines how in addition to race and gender, global Islamophobia continues to play an important role in how we can understand the role of food for Muslim South Asian American women She is the author of Intersectionality and the Muslim South Asian Middle Class: Beyond Hijab and Halal (2021), and Biryani and the Golden Girls (2024). and several articles including “Hijab and the Abrahamic Traditions”.
She currently serves on the advisory board of ASFS (Association for the Study of Food and Society. She was most recently featured on the Classical Ideas podcast (2024), where you can learn more about her scholarship and activism.
