Elora Shehabuddin is a Professor and Equity Advisor in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also serves as Director of the Global Studies Program and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies. A political scientist by training, she specializes in transnational feminism, the politics of Muslim women’s activism, and critical development studies, with a regional focus on South Asia and the Global South. She is the author of several acclaimed works, including Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism and Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh. Professor Shehabuddin has received numerous prestigious fellowships and her scholarship has been widely published in leading academic journals and edited volumes. Prior to joining Berkeley, she held faculty positions at Rice University and UC Irvine, and earned her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University.
