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Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University.[1] She is known for her scholarship on Muslims, gender, and Pakistan studies. She is a leading Shia Ismaili Muslim scholar.

Khoja-Moolji is the author of two books that have won awards from international academic associations: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia and Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan.

Early life and education

Khoja-Moolji grew up in Hyderabad, Pakistan.[2] She received a scholarship from the United World Colleges to do an International Baccalaureate.[2] She then earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a Masters from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Columbia University.[2]

Career

Between 2016 and 2018, Khoja-Moolji was a postdoctoral and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women.[3] In 2018, she joined the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at Bowdoin College, where she earned early tenure and promotion within four years. In 2022, Khoja-Moolji was appointed as the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim societies, a tenured and endowed chair position, at Georgetown University.[1]

Khoja-Moolji is known for her theorizations of Muslim girlhood, which includes several articles that analyze the portrayal of Malala Yousafzai and the politics of international development campaigns.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Her first book, Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia, published by the University of California Press (2018), is a genealogy of the ‘educated girl.’ The book shows how girl’s education is a site of struggle for multiple groups—from national to religious elites—through which they construct gender, class, and religious identities.[9][10][11] The book was published in the Islamic Humanities open-access series.[12] The book won the 2019 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society.[13]

Her second book, Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan, also published the University of California Press (2021), re-theorizes sovereignty by drawing on affect, cultural, and religious studies.[14][15] The book won the Best Book Award from the Theory section of the International Studies Association.[16]

In 2019, Khoja-Moolji was elected to the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.[17]

Khoja-Moolji is the recipient of three career awards: the Emerging Scholar Award from the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative based at Indiana University;[18] the Early Career Award for Community Engagement from the International Studies Association’s Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section;[16] and the Early Career Award from Teachers College, Columbia University.[19] [20]

Khoja-Moolji regularly publishes in Al Jazeera and the Express Tribune to convey scholarly ideas to the public.[21] [22]

References

  1. ^ a b "ACMCU Welcomes Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji to the Faculty". July 6, 2022. Archived from the original on July 12, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Wood, Sarah. "Meet Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, a Champion for Inclusive Education". Issues in Higher Education. Archived from the original on July 12, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  3. ^ "Visiting Scholar, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on July 12, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  4. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (April 1, 2018). "Why is Malala such a polarising figure in Pakistan?". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  5. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2015). "Reading Malala: (De)(Re)Territorialization of Muslim Collectivities". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 35 (3): 539–556. doi:10.1215/1089201X-3426397. Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  6. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2020). "Death by benevolence: third world girls and the contemporary politics of humanitarianism". Feminist Theory. 21 (1): 65–90. doi:10.1177/1464700119850026. S2CID 197718506.
  7. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2017). "The Making of Humans and Their Others in and through Transnational Human Rights Advocacy". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 42 (2): 377–402. doi:10.1086/688184. S2CID 151443956. Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  8. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2016). "Doing the 'work of hearing': girls' voices in transnational educational development campaigns". Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 46 (5): 745–763. doi:10.1080/03057925.2015.1084582. S2CID 143121465.
  9. ^ Leyava, Emily (2019). "Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia by Shenila Khoja-Moolji". Comparative Education Review. 63 (3): 447–449. doi:10.1086/704135. ISSN 0010-4086. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  10. ^ Adenuga, Taiwo (2020-08-19). "Forging the ideal educated girl: the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia". Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education. 9 (2). doi:10.32674/jise.v9i2.1666. ISSN 2166-2681. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  11. ^ Marin-Velasquez, Melba; Closson-Pitts, Brittany (2019-05-19). "Forging the ideal educated girl: the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia". Gender and Education. 31 (4): 560–561. doi:10.1080/09540253.2019.1583322. ISSN 0954-0253. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  12. ^ Open Access (2018). Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia. doi:10.1525/luminos.52. ISBN 9780520298408. S2CID 150332143. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  13. ^ Comparative and International Education Society. "2019 Jackie Kirk Award Outstanding Book Award". Archived from the original on July 12, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  14. ^ Howard, Jamie Lee (2021). "Sovereign Attachments Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan. Khoja‐Moolji, Shenila. 2021. Berkeley: University of California Press". Ethos. 49 (2): etho.12312. doi:10.1111/etho.12312. ISSN 0091-2131.
  15. ^ Hocking, Elise (2021). "Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan by Shenila Khoja-Moolji". CrossCurrents. 71 (4): 446–448. doi:10.1353/cro.2021.0037. ISSN 1939-3881.
  16. ^ a b International Studies Association. "2021-2022 Awards Recipients". Archived from the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  17. ^ Association for Asian Studies (November 25, 2019). "AAS 2019 Election Results". Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  18. ^ "Awards". Archived from the original on March 11, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  19. ^ Teachers College, Columbia University. "Working Towards Social Justice: Academic Festival 2021". Archived from the original on November 19, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  20. ^ Teachers College, Columbia University. "2021 Alumni Award Recipients". Archived from the original on July 12, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  21. ^ "Shenila Khoja-Moolji". Al Jazeera author profile. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  22. ^ "Stories from Dr Shenila Khoja Moolji". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
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