People

Associate Members

Name	Faculty	School	Job title	Location	Areas of expertise
Dr Sitara Akram			Lifelong Learning Centre Manager	University of Leeds	Islamic Finance
Dr Gregorio Alonso		Languages, Cultures and Societies	Associate Professor in Hispanic History	University of Leeds	Political and religious conflicts in Modern Europe and Latin America; the making of the liberal, nationalistic and Catholic traditions during the nineteenth century; democracy and democratization.
Professor Paul Bagguley		School of Sociology and Social Policy	Professor of Political Sociology	University of Leeds	Protest and social movements, racism and ethnicity studies, employment and social theory
Nisa Efendioglu		School of Sociology and Social Policy	PhD Candidate	University of Leeds	Islamophobia in Turkiye
Dr Ahmed Elgindy		Languages, Cultures and Societies	Lecturer in Arabic and Translation	University of Leeds	Translation Studies, specially Sociology of Translation, focusing on Bourdieu's sociology; Teaching Arabic as a second language; Second Language acquisition pedagogy.
Dr Mahboob Hussain		School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (alumnus)	Senior Lecturer	Jamia al-Karam	Qur’anic Studies
Professor Yasmin Hussain		School of Sociology and Social Policy	Professor of Ethnicity and Racism	University of Leeds	Ethnicity, racism and Islamophobia
Dr Sanah Mehnaz		School of Languages, Cultures and Societies	Independent Scholar	University of Leeds (alumna)
Dr AbdulGafar Olawale Fahm	Islamic Studies		Reader and LUCAS-LAHRI Virtual-Visiting Research Fellow	University of Ilorin, Nigeria	Islamic thought, digital ethics, Muslim intellectual traditions, and contemporary issues in African Muslim societies.
Dr Sofia Rehman		School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	Visiting Fellow	University of Leeds	Islam and gender, Islamic law, Hadith Studies
Professor Adriaan Van Klinken		Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	Professor of Religion and African Studies	University of Leeds	Religion, society and culture in Africa; Religion, gender and sexuality; Contemporary Christianity (esp. Pentecostalism)
Nikita Zychowicz		School of Sociology and Social Policy	Postgraduate Researcher (PhD)	University of Leeds