Its reports and surveys have included topics such as political leanings, attitudes on censorship, experiences of discrimination, and responses to religiously motivated violence.

[1] The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting says, "The American Muslim Poll addresses a gaping deficit in popular knowledge: About 50 percent of Americans say they don’t know a Muslim in real life, leaving half the country to rely on the media to understand approximately 3.5 million of their compatriots, and 1.8 billion people around the world".

In April 2003, SPU's fellow published an article in The Encyclopedia of the Human Genome titled 'Race and Difference: Orientalism and Western Concepts.'

ISPU works with a number of experts on a wide variety of issues related to their respective areas of research and specialty.

Affiliated scholars and fellows include: Laila Alawa, Moustafa Bayoumi, Hassan Abbas, Arsalan Iftikhar, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Ihsan Bagby, and Hatem Bazian, among others.