If you would like to be included in our public list of members, please send an email to ssaleem@liverpool.ac.uk, stating your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), link to research profile/personal website, and research interests.
Coordinators
Saleena Saleem, University of Liverpool
Research Interests: Islam and gender politics; sociology of race and religion; identity politics; political Islam
Najwa Abdullah, National University of Singapore
Research Interests: history of media and communications; popular culture; Islam and modernity; race and religious relations in the Malay-speaking world
Members
Noorman Abdullah, National University of Singapore
Research Interests: religion and society; deviance and social control; sensory studies
Wisnu Adihartono, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Research Interests: Migration; gender studies; gay studies, family studies; Southeast Asian studies; sociology of everyday life
Nassef Manabilang Adiong, University of the Philippines Diliman
Research Interests: theoretical research between Islam and international relations; political interaction of Muslim societies with Western modernity; Muslim governance in the Philippines
Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore
Research Interests: historical sociology; the sociology of social science; the sociology of religion and inter-religious dialogue
Alexander Arifianto, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Research Interests: political Islam, Islamic movements, identity politics, Indonesian politics, Southeast Asian politics
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz, Friendrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Research Interests: Islam in Southeast Asia/the Malay World; Philippine studies; sociology & anthropology of Islam/Muslims; political anthropology; anthropology of bureaucracy
Adi Bharat, University of Manchester
Research Interests: Jewish-Muslim relations; LGBT+ Muslims; ex-Muslims and apostasy from Islam; antisemitism; anti-Muslim racism; activism; community building
Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana
Research Interests: Malay identity; religious freedom; race-ethnicity debates; higher education; international relations; religious extremism
Azhar Ibrahim, National University of Singapore
Research Interests: Religion and society; deviance and social control; sensory studies
Mohammed Ilyas, University of Liverpool
Research Interests: political violence and terrorism; hate crimes; gender; religion; decolonization
Iulia Lumina, Independent Scholar
Research Interests: anthropology of Islam; decolonial thought; critical theory and the intellectual history of the Global South
Ahmad Najaa Mokhtar, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Research Interests: religion and society; Islamic theology; Sufism
Leon Moosavi, University of Liverpool
Research Interests: internationalisation of higher education; academic imperialism; orientalism in academia; decolonising knowledge
Dominik Müller, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Research Interests: state, Islam, and society in Southeast Asia; bureaucratization of Islam
Geoffrey Pakiam, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Research Interests: Social and economic history of Southeast Asia
Noor Aisha bte Abdul Rahman, National University of Singapore
Research Interests: Malay legal history and institutions; Muslim law and its administration in Singapore and Malaysia; sociology of religion (Islam and Malay religious orientations)
Razwana Begum Bt Abdul Rahim, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Research Interests: restorative justice; desistance from crime; children and youth; corporate crime and ethics
Rachel Rinaldo, University of Colorado Boulder
Research Interests: gender, globalization, social change, and religion, with a special focus on the developing world and Muslim societies
Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Universiti Utara Malaysia
Research Interests: political theory; international relations; human rights; Malaysian politics
Mashitah Sulaiman, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Research Interests: history of Islam and the Malay World and Southeast Asia; Islamization of Knowledge and Islamic Science; ethnic relations and history of the Middle East, particularly the development of Islam and politics in Turkey; Islamic da’wah and religiosity
Tanzeel Tango, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Research Interests: Middle-East, peace and conflict studies, religious studies, modern Islamic thought, and Islamic philosophy
Zhao Xuefeng, Renmin University of China (RUC)
Research Interests: Islamic studies; Islam in Aceh, Indonesia