Aly Kassam-Remtulla

Aly Kassam-Remtulla (also known as Aly Remtulla) is a U.S.-based academic, writer and scholar who is Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University.[1][2] Previously, he was associated with the MacArthur Foundation.[3]

Career

Kassam-Remtulla was born in Kenya and grew up in Canada.  He received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences, Asian American Studies and Anthropology from Stanford University.[4] He then studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College,[5] where he received a master's degree, MBA, and doctorate from Oxford University.[6]

Kassam-Remtulla's academic research and teaching concerns immigrant Muslim communities and has been widely cited by scholars of Ismailism, Islam, and those with interests in African Studies.[7][8][9][10][11][12] He is a published poet and his writing has appeared in journalism at WIRED, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Magazine.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

He is presently working as Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University.[7] Earlier, he worked on advancing diversity for graduate students and faculty members at Princeton and efforts to support Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.[20][21][22][23] He co-founded the Faculty Advancement Network, a national consortium to promote diversity and inclusion in the professoriate community.[24] Kassam-Remtulla has served on numerous non-profit boards and is the chair of the board of trustees at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya.[25][26]

He has been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award, the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts[27] and the Alberta Centennial Medal.[28] He also received the Annetta Dieckmann Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois where he founded the Young Advocates Program.[3][29]

Publications
  • (Dis)Placing Khojas: Forging identities, revitalizing Islam and crafting global Ismailism [30][31][32]
  • Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Case Studies of Two American Universities. The United Kingdom, University of Oxford, 2012.[9]
  • Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, ISBN 978-0-8476-9144-9 [33]
  • Contours Of The Heart (Asian American Writers Worksh), 1998, ISBN 978-1889876009 [34]

Footnotes
  • A Modern History of the Ismailis, Edited by Farhad Daftary, I.B.Tauris Publishers, London 2011.[35]
  • Miraly, Mohammad N.. Faith and World: Contemporary Ismaili Social and Political Thought. United States, iUniverse, 2016.
  • Chakraborty, Tapas, and Pal, Adesh. Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora. India, Creative Books, 2004.
  • Stanford. United States, Stanford Alumni Association, 2005.
  • Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. United States, Facts On File, Incorporated, 2010.
  • The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. United Kingdom, Berghahn Books, 2016.[36]
  • Geo-economics and Geo-securities in the Indian Ocean Region. N.p., Taylor & Francis, 2018.[37]
  • Magout, Mohammad. A Reflexive Islamic Modernity: Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community. Germany, Ergon Verlag, 2020.[38]
  • Transnational and Cosmopolitan Forms of Islam in the West, by Karen Leonard [39]
  • Canada and the Ismaili Imamat: Transnational Muslim Diplomacy and Multicultural Nationalism by Kais Khimji.[40]
  • Bolander, B. (2016). English and the transnational Ismaili Muslim community: Identity, the Aga Khan, and infrastructure. Language in Society, 45(4), 583–604. doi:10.1017/S0047404516000439
  • From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim: The Articulation of Ismaili Khoja Identity in South Asia.[41]
  • Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. The United States, Facts On File, Incorporated, 2010.
  • Carter, Marina, and Torabully, Khal. Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora. The United Kingdom, Anthem Press, 2002.
  • Hirji, Karim F.. Growing Up with Tanzania: Memories, Musings, and Maths. Tanzania, Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, 2014.

References
  1. "Aly Kassam-Remtulla | Provost". provost.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  2. Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. "Sinophobia, the new Islamophobia". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  3. "Aly Kassam-Remtulla Named Program Officer". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  4. "Stanford students win Rhodes, Marshalls: 12/98". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  5. "The Association of American Rhodes Scholars: Oxford University Society Elections". www.americanrhodes.org. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  6. "IIS Announces 2007 PhD Scholarship Awards | The Institute of Ismaili Studies". www.iis.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. "Course brings new perspective on American Muslims to campus". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  8. Daftary, Farhad (2010-12-08). A Modern History of the Ismailis: Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85772-335-2.
  9. Kassam-Remtulla, Aly (2012). Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Case Studies of Two American Universities. University of Oxford.
  10. Pal, Adesh; Chakraborty, Tapas (2004). Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora. Creative Books. ISBN 978-81-8043-009-1.
  11. Equality. Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation. 2007.
  12. "The Migration of Indians to Eastern Africa: A Case Study of the Ismaili Community, 1866-1966". University of Central Florida 2019.
  13. magazine, STANFORD. "Here for the Taking". stanfordmag.org. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  14. "Sinophobia The New Islamophobia". m.thedailynewnation.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  15. "Aly Kassam-Remtulla | Al Jazeera News". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  16. "When Schools Reopen, Don't Ditch Online Learning". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  17. "Instant Opinion: 'nothing sticks to Donald Trump' - until now". The Week UK. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  18. "Caring for the community during a global health emergency". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  19. "Aly Remtulla". www.weber.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  20. "Pilot programs build bridges, add diversity for promising scholars interested in graduate study". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  21. "Upward Bound: New Programs to Help Underrepresented Students Prepare to Pursue Ph.D.s". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  22. "Graduate School orientation focuses on academic success, community". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  23. "Princetonians provide post-hurricane support to Puerto Rico". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  24. "Faculty Advancement Network". Faculty Advancement Network. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  25. "Hongera Mpala Science & Outreach Report" (PDF). Mpala Research Centre & Mpala Wildlife Foundation.
  26. "Princeton celebrates 25 years of research and teaching at Mpala, Kenya". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  27. "Firestone and Golden Medal recipients honored for academic achievement" (PDF). Stanford Report Volume 1.
  28. "The Alberta Gazette" (PDF). GOVERNMENT NOTICES Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
  29. "The Association of American Rhodes Scholars: Aly Kassam-Remtulla won the Annetta Dieckmann Award". www.americanrhodes.org. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  30. Conference, African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific; Schwerdt, Dianne (2001). Re-imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives. Nova Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59033-100-2.
  31. Kassam-Remtulla, A. (1999). "(Dis)Placing Khojas: Forging identities, revitalizing Islam and crafting global Ismailism". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  32. "(DIS)PLACING KHOJAHS:FORGING IDENTITIES, REVITALIZING ISLAM, AND CRAFTING GLOBAL ISMAILISM". ismaili.net. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  33. Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas.
  34. "9781889876009: Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers' Workshop) - AbeBooks - Maira, Sunaina: 1889876003". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  35. Daftary, Farhad (2011). A Modern History of the Ismailis Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community. ISBN 978-1-84511-717-7.
  36. Knörr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph (February 2016). The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-069-8.
  37. Doyle, Timothy (2018-04-19). Geo-economics and Geo-securities in the Indian Ocean Region. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-46695-8.
  38. Magout, Mohammad (2020-03-06). A Reflexive Islamic Modernity: Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community. Ergon Verlag. ISBN 978-3-95650-637-6.
  39. Leonard, Karen. "Transnational and Cosmopolitan Forms of Islam in the West" (PDF). Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.
  40. Khimji, Kais. "Canada and the Ismaili Imamat: Transnational Muslim Diplomacy and Multicultural Nationalism". ResearchGate.
  41. Asani, Ali S. "From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim: The Articulation of Ismaili Khoja Identity in South Asia" (PDF). Farhad Daftary, Modern History of the Ismailis.
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