Alyshea Cummins

Background

About Alyshea Cummins

Dr. Alyshea Cummins is a sociologist of religion specializing in contemporary Islam, religious identity, migration, and intergenerational transmission. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (UK), where she is conducting research for the Ismaili Oral Histories Project in Canada and developing a book manuscript for the Living Ismaili Traditions series, focused on Canadian Ismaili identity and heritage. She teaches Religion at Carleton University and serves as Program Chair of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion. She is Associate Editor for Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses and a Series Editor for Rethinking Religion (De Gruyter-Brill). Alyshea is also the Chair of the CSSR Book Prize Committee and National Board Member of the Ismaili Tariqa and Religious Education Board, Canada. Her work appears in Religions (2025) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration (2022). She also has co-authored chapters in Families and Religion: Dynamics of Transmission across Generations (2025), Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective (2019), and Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context (2018).