Nayla Huq

PhD Candidate in Sociology   

Email: nayla.huq@stonybrook.edu

Nayla received her BA in English from UCLA, and MA in Sociology from CSU Northridge. Her research interests are at the intersection of social movements, economic development, and environmental sociology with a geographic focus on South and Southeast Asia. She is currently conducting a cross-national, longitudinal study that explores if import-export relations of forestry commodities challenge long-standing environmental sociological theory. Previously, she studied the work of a fake grassroots education reform social movement organization pushing for neoliberal changes in California public schools.

Nayla was awarded the 2021 US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Indonesian. She has also been awarded academic achievement scholarships at the master’s level, and the 2021 Summer Sociology Graduate Student Research Award from Stony Brook University.

Nayla has taught Sociological Theory and will be teaching Environmental Sociology.