Katherine Bullock is an alumna of the University of Toronto, where she earned her doctorate in political Science in 1999. It was during her doctoral studies that she embraced Islam. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on “politics of the veil”. She is originally from Australia and now lives in California.

Katherine Bullock is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, and media representations of Islam and Muslims. She was the editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences from 2003 - 2008, the Vice-President of The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (North America) from 2006 - 2009. Her publications include: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes which has been translated into Arabic, French, and Turkish. She is also President of The Tessellate Institute, a non-profit research institute, and of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Originally from Australia, she lives in Oakville with her husband and children. She embraced Islam in 1994.