Dr. Youssef Carter is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He serves as faculty advisor for the Muslim Student Association and the Black Muslim Collective at UNC. Carter’s scholarship centers Muslim life and networks in the Black Atlantic and is primarily interested in religious empowerment. His forthcoming book, entitled The Vast Oceans: Remembering God and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026), is a multisite ethnography of a transatlantic spiritual network of African-American and West African Muslims in South Carolina and Senegal.