Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji holds the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. Her research explores how gender, race, religion, and power intersect in the lives of Muslim communities in South Asia and North America, with particular attention to experiences of displacement and community formation.
She is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl (University of California Press), Sovereign Attachments (University of California Press), Rebuilding Community (Oxford University Press), The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood (University of Minnesota Press), and Thinking Past Crisis (New York University Press, forthcoming). Her books have received multiple national and international awards from bodies such as the International Studies Association, the American Academy of Religion, the Association for Feminist Anthropology, the Comparative and International Education Society, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.
Within the Ismaili community, Professor Khoja-Moolji has served as a member for Communications and Publications on the Ismaili Council for the Northeastern United States, and a Board Member of ITREB USA. She has taught at Global Encounters in Pakistan and Kenya, directed the College Programme on Islam in the U.S., and consulted on projects with the AKDN in Syria, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
