His research areas include early Sunni-Shiite polemics, political Islam, and African American Muslim history. He is co-director of the After Malcolm oral history archiving project, co-director of GSU’s Civic Approaches to Conflict Resolution initiative, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. The U.S. Institute of Peace, the British Foreign Council, and NEH have funded his work. His most recent book is a coedited volume entitled, Islamism: Competing Perspectives on Islam with Stanford University Press. His public commentary and analysis can be found in a variety of print and broadcast media outlets, including The Huffington Post, The Guardian, CNN, Aljazeera, and Fox News.