Sarah Tasnim Shehabuddin taught at the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong from 2012 to 2016 and BRAC University in Dhaka from 2020 to 2021. She completed her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in July 2012. A comparativist, she focuses on religion and politics, women's rights, and secularism in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Her dissertation, "Going Beyond Conflict: Secular Feminists, Islamists, and Gender Policy Reform", explored how state strength and political calculations explain why secular feminists and Islamists both work on gender policy reform in some contexts, but not in others. She has taught courses on comparative politics, social and political thought, political Islam, and women's rights movements. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Asian Studies from Mount Holyoke College.