Quaiser D. Abdullah

Quaiser Abdullah, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Communication and Social Influence department in Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. He primarily teaches courses on conflict resolution and communication. Quaiser is the Program Director for Klein’s Master of Science in Communication Management.

At Temple, Quaiser sits in the Faculty Senate Steering Committee, the Anti-Violence Task Force (2022), the Awards Committee for his department and Klein’s diversity committee. Quaiser is also the faculty advisor for the Muslim Student Association at Temple. In Philadelphia, Quaiser serves as the board chair of the Interfaith Philadelphia; a Police Chaplain with the 18^th District of the Philadelphia Police Department; is Co-Chair on the Mayor’s Commission for Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs and sat on the District Attorney’s task force focusing on Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission before its work ceased. Quaiser is also a board member for the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Association of Muslim Chaplains. Quaiser is a scholar with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a convening member of ISPU’s Black Muslim Research Working Group and a recipient of the Trailblazer Award from the Muslim Wellness Foundation (2020).

Quaiser is a certified Conflict Resolution in Education trainer, certified coach, conflict coach, Positive Discipline Educator and a trained mediator in the area of Transformative Mediation, with a focus on family, divorce and custody mediation. Quaiser recently served as a co-convener of the new Muslim Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform established in 2020 in Philadelphia, which is now on a hiatus.

Quaiser’s research interests center around identity and conflict, leadership and conflict management and religious identity. Quaiser authored the chapter entitled “Muslim Leader Formation and Education,” published by SAGE in the Religious Leadership: A Reference Handbook (2012). His chapter, “Daanaa Abdullah: Exemplar of Community Leadership” was published in Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership: Reclaiming School Reform, in 2015 by Routledge. Quaiser has also appeared on various interviews, panels and presentations discussing diversity, identity and conflict. Since 2020, Quaiser has been called as an expert witness in five cases to discuss verbal aggression and violence as it relates to police officers who have been disciplined for engaging in verbally aggressive communication as part of the arbitration proceedings arising out of the Plain View Project.

Quaiser is the president of Statera Coaching and Leadership Consulting, LLC. Statera Coaching is a private company that focuses on leadership training, conflict resolution, professional and conflict coaching and organizational development.