Dr. Shirazi is a bicultural, bilingual, community-engaged scholar. Her work is grounded in decolonial feminist scholarship that focuses on health in the global context of race, gender, immigration, and environment. Their particular focus is on health inequities among immigrant/refugee women, specifically on the socio-cultural barriers limiting access to breast health and lifesaving prevention and care through the utilization of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). Shirazi's scholarship also addresses transnational praxis and pedagogy through critical studies of culture, lived experience, and narratives of decolonization with publications on Muslim mothering, family relationships in Iranian film, anti-racist pedagogy, and gendered Islamophobia.

Dr. Shirazi is the PI for the Mellon Foundation's Affirming Multivocal Humanities Award. Affirming Multivocal Humanities recognizes the importance of the study of race, gender, and sexuality to promote just and equitable futures. Our milestone initiatives emphasize: Academic Freedom, Art as Activism, and Trans Justice. Part of the goal of the implementation of this grant is to highlight Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Queer Studies undergraduate researchers' achievements here at Oregon State University.