Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Georgetown University
Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji holds the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University, where she is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar of gender, religion, and migration. Her research examines how gender, race, religion, and power intersect in the lives of Muslim communities in South Asia and North America, with particular attention to displacement and community formation. She is the author of five books — including Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Sovereign Attachments, Rebuilding Community, and The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood — with research published in leading journals such as Signs and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She holds degrees from Brown, Harvard, and Columbia, serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and is an engaged public scholar whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Al Jazeera.
Kainat Jalaluddin
Georgetown University
Kainat Jalaluddin is a PhD student in Islamic Philosophy at Georgetown University. She earned an MA in Religion from the University of Chicago and an MA in Islamic Intellectual History from SOAS, University of London. Her research centers on tenth- and eleventh-century philosophical discussions of themes such as creation, causality, and the existence of God. Her work engages how early Muslim thinkers wrestled with questions of metaphysics and the nature of the divine.
Sana Rahim Khan
Princeton University
Sana Khan is a PhD student at Princeton University, where she studies the social and intellectual history of the earliest Muslim communities (seventh to twelfth centuries). Her work focuses on the historical Muḥammad and the sīrah literature, examining the earliest layers of Islamic history and reading Islamic historical sources in light of Late Antiquity and Sassanian religious history. She graduated with an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2021, where she wrote a thesis on the trope of wandering in the earliest extant Arabic and Persian sources on Majnūn Laylā. She earned her Master of Theological Studies in Islamic Studies from Harvard University in 2023.
Stephen Cúrto
Claremont Graduate University
Stephen Cúrto is a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on Qurʾānic studies, Shīʿī studies, and Ismāʿīlī studies, with particular attention to the ginān tradition. His work situates the gināns within broader Qurʾānic and Shīʿī interpretive contexts, bridging textual and devotional traditions. He previously taught Arabic language and philosophy at Union College of Union County, New Jersey.
Alyjan Daya
Harvard University
Alyjan Daya is a PhD student in Islamic Studies at Harvard University, where he studies the history and development of Ismaili theology and philosophy in the tenth and eleventh centuries. His research explores the intellectual and historical foundations of early Ismaili thought and its intersections with the broader Islamic and Syriac-Christian philosophical traditions. Trained in Classical Arabic, Persian, and Syriac, he approaches these texts through a philological and historical lens. He earned his Master of Theological Studies in Islamic Studies from Harvard in 2023 and his BA in Islamic Studies, with Departmental and Special Honors, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.
