Dr. Rabia Kamal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS). She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and has previously served as a faculty member in the Anthropology department at the University of San Francisco. Her research brings together scholarship on cultural and visual anthropology, digital technologies and surveillance, and racialization and gender politics in South Asia and the United States. She teaches courses on the anthropology of social media, decolonizing feminism, and qualitative research methods. Her current research project is a multi-sited ethnography located at the nexus of social media and social justice in urban Pakistan.
(2020) "Muslims and Social Media in North America," In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Kathleen Moore, Ed. Oxford University Press, Inc.
(2005) "Conflict and Identity in a Jewish Non-Profit Organization." In ConnectionsBetween Faith Communities and Their Non-Profits. Katie Day, Jo Anne Schneider and Gwyneth Anderson, Eds. (National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America/George Washington Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University).
(2015) "Islamophobia: History and Current Realities in the U.S.," In Asia American Religious Cultures. Jonathan X. Lee, Ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC.
(2014) "Youth Movements," "Islamic Dress and Fashion," In The [Oxford] Handbook on American Islam. Yvonne H. Haddad and Jane I. Smith, Eds. Oxford University Press, Inc.
Book Review: (2009) Elgamri, Elzain. 2009. "Islam in the British Broadsheets: The Impact of Orientalism on Representations of Islam in the British Press." American Journal ofIslamic Social Sciences 31 (2): 128-130.
Book Review: (2017) Aly, Ramy MK. 2015. "Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity." American Anthropologist 119(3): 547-548.
(2014) "Teaching Asian American Islam and Racialization Through Film," In American Academy of Religion Spotlight on Teaching. http://www.aarweb.org/node/1905.
Book Review: (2009) Jamal, Amaney and Nadine Naber, Eds. 2007. "Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects". American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29(4): 131-134
(2011) "Pakistani America: History, People and Culture." In Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore. Jonathan X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau, Eds. Santa Barbara, CA: -CLIO, LLC: 955-996.
Panelist, "Conflict and Identity in a Jewish Non-Profit Organization." Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Annual Meetings, Washington D.C. (2005)
Panelist, "Islamophobia Online Before & After Trump." CDS 390-02 "A People s Guide to the Trump Presidency," University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. (2017)
Panelist, "The Politics of Belonging in the Cyber-Public Sphere: Reculturalizing American Islam through Intersectional Cyberactivism." Comparative Racializations and the Future of Asian American Studies Conference at CUNY, New York NY. (2016)
Panelist, "Influencer or Activist? Building Transnational Muslim Solidarity through Insta-Fashion Blogging." Global Women s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. (2018)
Panelist, "Media Representations of 9/11 in Urban Pakistan." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. (2005)
Panelist, "The Politics of Citizenship in the Digital Era." Global South Asia: Publics & Politics at NYU, New York NY. (2014)
Panelist, "Reformulating the American Muslim Circuit: Cultural and Racial Border Crossing Across the Immigrant-Indigenous Divide." American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans LA. (2010)
Panelist, "Political Identities and the Mediated Making of Muslim Americans." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago IL (2013)
"Cultural and Racial Border-Crossing Across New Media: South Asian American and African-American Muslim Activism Online." To be submitted to Political & Legal Anthropology Review
"At the Margins of American Islam: Transnational Solidarities of Queer Muslim Youth Through Digital Media." To be submitted to Transforming Anthropology