Susan L. Douglass is an American-born Muslim. She is a former social studies teacher and author affiliated with the Council on Islamic Education.[1] She is a senior research associate at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University.[2] She was formerly affiliated with the Prince Alaweed bin-Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.[3]
Douglass holds a M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in history from the University of Rochester.
She was an advisor to the 2002 PBS broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002).