She joined the UW faculty in 2006 after receiving her Ph.D. in English from the University of Albany-SUNY (2005). Dr. Ibrahim’s research focuses on the cultural politics of contemporary multiracialism, interracial intimacy and the conjoinment of black and mixed-racial identity formation. Her book is entitled “Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism” (2012). She also authored the book “Toward Black and Multiracial Kinship after 1997, or How a Race Man Became Cablinasian” in 2009. Dr. Ibrahim served as the keynote speaker for OMA&D’s annual Pacific Northwest McNair/Early Identification Program Research Conference in 2010.