Andie is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research centers around identity construction, boundary formation, difference-making, experience rhetoric, and conceptions of the individual. More specifically, her work examines the ways in which post-9/11 public discourses of inclusivity and tolerance implicitly marginalize and domesticate Islam in the US, UK, and Europe. Drawing on a few prominent public web resources about religious tolerance and pluralism, she analyzes how the promotion of “moderate” Islam—which is understood as inherently peaceful unlike its “radical” or “extremist” counterpart—as the authentic representation masks the structural work of those discourses in creating an Islam that is easily managed. She examines how, in prioritizing a certain type of individual—understood as a distinct social actor who possesses personal, private knowledge of themselves as largely separate from (and sometimes in competition with) public, mediated knowledge—these inclusivity discourses ultimately work as a form of governance and subject-making which construct and constrain the liberal Muslim subject.

She earned her BA in Religious Studies and History at the University of Alabama (2012), her MA in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (2017), and her MA in American Religions at Emory University (2022). During her time at Alabama, she became involved with digital scholarship, website management, and blogging.

Andie is co-editor (with Jason W. M. Ellsworth) of Fabricating Authenticity (Equinox, 2024). She is Managing Editor of The Religious Studies Project and is a member of the international scholarly collaborative Culture on the Edge.