Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad

about dr. Muhammad

Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad, Associate Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology, specializes in the effects of the criminal legal system and injustices experienced by families and children of incarcerated parents. Her sub- specialties are juvenile justice, higher education in prison and motherhood. Dr. Muhammad is the founding curator of Policing Inside Out and the Higher Education in Prison Programming across the HU Campus. Educated at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice (PhD, BA, Criminology Certificate) and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (MA, Certificate of Corrections Administration). Dr. Muhammad has received awards for her teaching (Faculty of the Year 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2019) and service to the incarcerated and detained (Carolyn Cross Community Impact Award-2019, George Strawn Volunteer Award-2018, and the Bureau of Prisons Volunteer of the Year Award-2016). In addition, Dr. Muhammad has won several fellowships including the Culture Institute Fellow, Mandela Washington Reciprocal Exchange Fellow for the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative, and Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. She is also the Principal Investigator of two institutional grants and Co-PI on additional grants, including the $5 million Mellon Just Futures grant- for the Howard University Social Justice Consortium (2021) and the Knight Foundation Grant ($250k in 2020). Dr. Muhammad has a co-edited anthology with Rutgers University Press (2019) and scholarship published in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Law Review, the Journal of Gender, SocialPolicy, the Law and the American University Business and Law Review and the Peabody Journal of Education. Currently, Dr. Muhammad is completing a book entitled “Social Revolution: Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power”.