Dr Iza Hussin

Dr Hussin's research and teaching are in the areas of comparative politics, Islam and Muslim politics, law and society and religion and politics. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the European Commission (Horizon2020). She holds a PhD from the University of Washington, an MA from Georgetown University and an AM and AB from Harvard University. Prior to joining POLIS, she was a member of the faculty in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her recent book, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State (University of Chicago Press 2016), explored the construction of Islamic law in colonial India, Malaya and Egypt. 

Current research projects include a manuscript on the travels of law across the Indian Ocean arena (forthcoming) and collaborative projects on Internet fatwa, as well as on challenges to liberal governance in Southeast Asia (Horizon2020 2017-2020).  Dr Hussin is PI of ‘Unboxing Skeat,’ a collaborative project connecting Malaya collections across the University through multi-disciplinary research and networks of access within Southeast Asia.

She is a General Editor of  the Cambridge University Press series Asian Connections, on the Editorial Boards of Indonesia and the Malay World, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde /Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI), and the International Books Board of Law and Social Inquiry. She is Associate Research Fellow at the Joint Centre for History and Economics, and a member of the Faculty in World History at Cambridge.

Dr Hussin supervises students in comparative politics, religion and politics, law and society, colonial and postcolonial politics and history. 

Affiliation:

Mohamed Noah Fellow, Pembroke College