Shelina is a critical race scholar whose current research concentrates on Muslims in contemporary Western multicultural nation-states. Using postcolonial, feminist, and critical race analyses, she focuses especially on the Acceptable Muslim in media, public, and political discourses, a figure who reanimates racialized boundaries of citizenship. Since 2007, she has taught at the University of Toronto and teaches courses such as Critical Race Theory, Representations of Muslims, Gender and Islam, and Muslims and Multiculturalism.