The Connections fellowship is an interdisciplinary research program that brings together ASU faculty and graduate students, local community college faculty, as well as short-term research fellows and journalists, to explore and illuminate the complexities of Muslim experiences in America. Connections has an annual theme that guides the faculty and journalist cohort. Each year a cohort of two ASU faculty, one local community college teacher, and two graduate students will be selected to participate in a semester-long seminar that will provide an opportunity to engage and work with three short-term visiting research fellows and journalists.