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Shenila Khoja-Moolji is known for her on scholarship on Islam, gender, and Pakistan studies.[1] She is an assistant professor at Bowdoin College and where she received early tenure and promotion in 2022.[2]

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

Born in 1982, Khoja-Moolji grew up in Hyderabad, Pakistan.[3] She received a scholarship from the United World Colleges to do an International Baccalaureate.[4] She then earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a Masters from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Columbia University.[4]

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.[5] In 2018, she joined the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at Bowdoin College.

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.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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.[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] The book won the Best Book Award from the Theory section of the International Studies Association.[15]

In 2019, Khoja-Moolji was elected to the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.[16]

Khoja-Moolji is the recipient of three career awards: the Emerging Scholar Award from the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative based at Indiana University;[17] the Early Career Award for Community Engagement from the International Studies Association’s Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section;[15] and, the Early Career Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, which “honors a recent graduate (10 years or less) who has earned distinction in her/his field and demonstrates outstanding future potential.”[18] [19]

References

  1. ^ Bowdoin Faculty Profiles https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/skhoja/
  2. ^ Bowdoin News (February 14, 2022). "Board of Trustees Elects New Chair, Awards Tenure to Nine Faculty Members". Bowdoin College.
  3. ^ Wood, Sarah. "Meet Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, a Champion for Inclusive Education". Issues in Higher Education. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  4. ^ a b ibid.
  5. ^ "Visiting Scholar, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  6. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (April 1, 2018). "Why is Malala such a polarising figure in Pakistan?". Al Jazeera.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2018). Forging the Ideal Educated Girl The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
  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.
  13. ^ Comparative and International Education Society. "2019 Jackie Kirk Award Outstanding Book Award". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  14. ^ Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2021). Sovereign Attachments Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
  15. ^ a b International Studies Association. "2021-2022 Awards Recipients". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  16. ^ Association for Asian Studies (November 25, 2019). "AAS 2019 Election Results". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  17. ^ "Awards". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  18. ^ Teachers College, Columbia University. "Working Towards Social Justice: Academic Festival 2021". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  19. ^ Teachers College, Columbia University. "2021 Alumni Award Recipients". Retrieved April 2, 2022.
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