Berkley Center

Masooda Bano is University Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development. She is also a research fellow at Wolfson College. Bano is currently working on a project that examines female Islamic education movements across the Muslim world since the 1970s through support from the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowships on Ideas and Beliefs, which are part of the Global Uncertainties initiative. Her expertise includes South Asia, female Islamic movements, madrasa and religious education, and development. Bano is the author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (2012) and Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action (2012), as well as numerous other articles and book chapters.