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Study after study reveals what any woman in the humanities academia already knows: sexism thrives here. From its upper echelons, where men are hired more often into tenure track jobs and given prestigious named chairs at higher rates, to lower ranks, where women disproportionately fill poorly paid contingent instructor roles, disparities play out in everything from course evaluations to salaries. Drawing on her recent book on sexism within Islamic Studies, Kecia Ali focuses on research-related discrimination: whose work is cited, by whom, in what ways? Although some of her findings apply most clearly to faculty who study Islam and Muslims, many apply to the contemporary academy at large.