He was a visiting Professor at Stanford University[6] and is a member of the Association of Black Photographers.[7] In the spring of 2013 Abdu'Allah was an artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute, and in the fall of 2014 he returned to Wisconsin, this time as an assistant professor in the Art Department of the School of Education.[8] He is now an associate professor of art and in 2017, received one of UW–Madison's Romnes Faculty Fellowships.[9]