Berkley Center

Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji holds the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University, where she is also the faculty director of the Mountain Societies Initiative. Her research examines how gender, race, religion, and power intersect in the lives of Muslim communities in South Asia and North America. She is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (2018); Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan (2021); Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (2023); The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood (2024); and Thinking Past Crisis: Ismaili Muslims and the Work of Repair in North America (forthcoming). She holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Columbia University.