Her first book, Suburban Islam: Leisure, Authority, and Pluralism after 9/11, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Other forthcoming publications in the Journal of Quranic Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Early Islam analyze the effects of ideologies of religious pluralism on American Muslim communities and scholarship on Islam. Her next project will examine the role of college campuses in the making of American Islam. Howe teaches a variety of courses on Muslim texts and practices as well as thematic courses in American Religions. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Northwestern University and her M.A. in Divinity from the University of Chicago.