Education
Mahmood received her Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1998.
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Career
At Berkeley, she is also affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of South Asian Studies, and the program in Critical Theory. Mahmood has made major theoretical contributions to rethinking the relationship between ethics and politics, religion and secularism, freedom and submission, and reason and embodiment. She also holds masters degrees in Political Science, Architecture, and Urban Planning.
Prior to joining Berkeley in 2004, she taught at the University of Chicago.
Mahmood has held visiting appointments at the American Academy in Berlin, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Leiden University. She has taught at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Venice School of Human Rights, and Institute of Global Law and Policy.
She was a co-convener of the Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Corporation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies.
She currently serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology Today, L’Homme, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
Her work has been translated into Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Polish.
