 She also serves in a number of editorial, advisory and consulting roles.Previously DeLong-Bas has taught at Brandeis University and worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation.DeLong-Bas has expressed the view that there is too much negativity towards Wahhabism in the West, and in her writings has argued that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was "not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements", but 
"a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought.