Azza Basarudin

Azza Basarudin is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Basarudin’s research and teaching interests are transnational feminisms, Muslim cultures and societies, and human rights, emphasizing Southeast Asia. She has held visiting positions and fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, Syracuse University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and the American University in Cairo. The University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation, among others, have supported her research. Her writings have appeared in journals such as Feminist Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Feminist Formations, Al-Raida: The Pioneer Journal, Scholar and Feminist Online, and Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture. Basarudin’s first book, Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia, was published by the University of Washington Press (2016). Her current book manuscript explores the racial, sexual, and queer dimensions of Muslim sociolegal and sociopolitical life in Malaysia. Basarudin is a longtime resident of Los Angeles and a founding member of a feminist task force in Southern California to tackle Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism.