Galina Scolnic is a sessional instructor in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor in Windsor, ON, Canada. She recently successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled Secularism versus Awkwardness in Public Spaces: An Online Ethnography with Muslims in Windsor, Ontario. Dr. Scolnic's main interests are religion, secularism, and the nation-state at the intersections of migration, gender, race, and class as it pertains to specific contexts.