Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Ph.D.
Sociology Researcher
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology
Biography
Research by Howard Associate Professor Bahiyyah Muhammad, Ph.D. shows that children of the incarcerated often defy societal expectations. Dr. Muhammad is an associate professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Howard and specializes in the effects of the criminal legal system and injustices experienced by families and children of incarcerated parents. She is the founding curator of Policing Inside Out and the Higher Education in Prison programming across the HU Campus. She was recognized as Faculty of the Year in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and has won numerous awards for her service to the incarcerated and detained. She was awarded several fellowships, including the U.S. Department of State's Franklin Fellowship, and served as an investigator on the five million dollar Mellon Just Futures grant for the Howard University Social Justice Consortium.