Research Associates
- Current
- Past
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Amine El Yousfi
Amine El Yousfi is a Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies working on the subject of “Muslims and Existential Risk”.
email: ae375@cam.ac.uk
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Iman Dawood
Iman completed her PhD in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She also holds an MA and BA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government, LSE from 2021-2022, and is now a Postdoctoral Research and Outreach Associate at Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Email: ismd2@cam.ac.uk
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Davide Pettinato
Davide Pettinato was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. His work integrates insights from the anthropology of Islam, human geography, and the environmental humanities, to explore Muslims’ engagement with and contributions to environmental sustainability and climate change issues.
Email: dp720@cam.ac.uk
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Emanuelle Degli Esposti
Emanuelle Degli Esposti worked on the subject of “Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other: The Public Face of European Shi’ism.
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Taushif Kara
Taushif Kara was in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research focused on the intellectual history of the Khoja diaspora around the Indian ocean world (ca. 1866 – 1972).
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Arafat Razzaque
Arafat Razzaque worked on Piety as Social Ethics: Speech and Public Morality in Islamic History. His project at CIS, ‘Fostering Ethics’, focused on the issue of adoption and foster care in the Muslim community.
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Vivek Gupta
Vivek Gupta is a historian of the arts of the Islamic, South Asian, and Indian Ocean worlds. At Cambridge, he researched Bihari Qur’an manuscripts, addressed curatorial literacy in India and curated both a long-running online lecture series (From Konkan to Coromandel) and an international art exhibition and symposium on Shahzia Sikander.
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Deniz Türker
Deniz Türker specialised in Islamic Art for the Centre. She was also an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History of Art and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams was a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies – working on radicalisation and Muslim experience in the Criminal Justice System. He now works in Queensland Australia.
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