Participant Info
- First Name
- Shenila
- Last Name
- Khoja-Moolji
- Country
- United States
- State
- ME Maine
- skhoja@bowdoin.edu
- Affiliation
- Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
- Website URL
- https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/skhoja/
- Keywords
- girlhood, Muslims, masculinities, Pakistan, state power, feminist theory, postcolonial theory
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly in relation to Muslim populations. Dr. Khoja-Moolji is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press). The book combines historical and cultural studies analyses with ethnographic work to examine the figure of the ‘educated girl’ in colonial India and postcolonial Pakistan.
- Recent Publications
Book: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @SKhojaMoolji
- Country Focus
- Pakistan and US
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Colonialism, Gender, Race, Sexual Violence, Women
