Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Georgetown University
Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji holds the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University, where she is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar of gender, religion, and migration. Her research examines how gender, race, religion, and power intersect in the lives of Muslim communities in South Asia and North America, with particular attention to displacement and community formation. She is the author of five books — including Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Sovereign Attachments, Rebuilding Community, and The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood — with research published in leading journals such as Signs and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She holds degrees from Brown, Harvard, and Columbia, serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and is an engaged public scholar whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Al Jazeera.
