BIO

Nurhaizatul Jamil is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University. Her research foregrounds minoritized Muslims’ engagements with social media and popular culture, and their imbrications with transnational circuits of Islamic education and consumption. Her next project examines the entanglements among modesty, fashion, and sustainability within Muslim communities.

She is also invested in learning the ways that indigenous and minoritized artists navigate dispossession through autoethnography. At Pratt, she teaches classes on gender and sexuality within Muslim communities, Middle Eastern communities and cultures, decolonizing methodologies, and fashion and sustainability studies.

Her articles have been published in a range of peer-review journals including the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Asian Studies Review. She has a forthcoming review essay on modest fashion in the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, where she has also produced a video conversation on the topic.

Dr. Jamil has received fellowships from the following institutions/granting agencies: Harvard Divinity School; ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation; Wenner-Gren Foundation (Dissertation, Post-PhD); Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education (Dissertation completion); Social Science Research Council (SSRC, declined).

In 2023, she received a Winner-Gren Post-PhD grant to begin work on her second project on modest fashion and Islamic eco-ethics. With that grant, she will be filming a series of mini-documentaries with her former student, Ariella Gayotto Hohl.

Dr. Jamil is an Associate Editor (East and Southeast Asia) of the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, and a trainer for the Muslim Women in the Media program (ACLS/Henry Luce).

From fall 2021 to spring 2022, she was based at the Harvard Divinity School, where she received a fellowship to complete her first book — currently under review.

In the Fall of 2025, she will be based at Cambridge University as a CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

Together with Jana Amin (Harvard undergrad), she is building an archive of/for Muslim TikTok

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