Faculty Profile
Dr. Sadaf Ahmad
Associate Professor
Department Of Humanities & Social Sciences
Sadaf Ahmad completed her Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University in the United States in 2006, and has Masters degrees in Gender, Anthropology and Development from Goldsmiths College, the University of London (2001), and in Psychology, from the National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-e-Azam University (2000).
Gender has been a cross cutting theme in her research to date and it has intersected with a variety of domains: religious revivalism, indigenous women’s social movements, gender based violence, and Pakistani cinema. Her current ethnographic research project is on Pakistani policewomen.
Her book, Transforming Faith (Syracuse University Press, 2009), is based on her doctoral research and explores how its techniques of expansion and pedagogies of persuasion have allowed Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women established in Islamabad in the early 1990s, to turn into a social movement. Her edited book Pakistani Women: Multiple Locations and Competing Narratives was published by the Oxford University Press in 2010.
Sadaf spent a year teaching at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges in upstate New York in 2005-06, and taught courses on Gender and Islam, Women and Fundamentalism, and Introduction to Islam there. She has been teaching at LUMS since 2006 and her courses here include Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Christianity and Islam, Gender and Power, Food and Culture, and Qualitative Research Methods.
- Books/ Book Chapters
- Book
Ahmad, S. .(2010). Pakistani Women: Multiple Locations and Competing Narratives. . Series Title: Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. , Oxford University Press
Ahmad, S. .(2009). Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women . , Syracuse University Press
- Book Section/chapter
Ahmad, S. .(2016). “Constructing a Culture of Fear: The Role of Gender Based Violence in Controlling Bonded Labour in Pakistan." . Bonded Labour in Pakistan, Ali Khan and Ayaz Qureshi (eds.) , Oxford University press
Ahmad, S. .(2016). “Morality and Desire? Examining the role of the ‘Westernized’ woman of Pakistani Cinema in the 1970s." . The Postcolonial World. Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim (eds.) , Routledge
Ahmad, S. .(2016). “Punctuating Gendered Values: Exploring the Phenomena of Slaps in Commercial Pakistani Films.” . Cinema and Society. Ali Khan and Ali Nobil (Eds). , Oxford University Press
Ahmad, S. .(2012). “AASHAs Approach to Institute Sexual Harassment Legislation in Pakistan.” . In New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities , Zed Books , pp. 44-65
Ahmad, S. .(2010). Of Allah and the Power Point.” . Islam and Society in Pakistan: Anthropological Perspectives. Series Title: Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. , Oxford University Press
- Book
- Journal Articles
- Journal Articles
Ahmad, S. .(2016). “Sexualized Objects and the Embodiment of Honour: Rape in Pakistani Films.” . South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. , Routledge
Ahmad, S. .(2013). “Al-Huda and Women’s Religious Authority in Urban Pakistan.” . The Muslim World , Wiley-Blackwell , pp. 363-374
Ahmad, S. .(2008). “Identity Matters, Culture Wars: An account of Al-Huda (re)-defining identity and reconfiguring culture in Pakistan.” . Religion and Culture , Routledge , pp. 63-80
Ahmad, S. .(2001). "Sexual Harassment: A Case in Pakistan." . Violence Against Women and Children. Review of Women's Studies. , Center for Women's Studies, Univ of the Philippine
Ahmad, S. .(2000). “Development of Rape Myths Scale and its Relation with Gender Role Attitudes.” . Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research , , pp. 54-74
Ahmad, S. .(2000). "Internship with the Research Centre of the Divine World College of Tagbilaran: A Testimony of Experience." . Graduate School Journal of DWCT , D
- Journal Articles
- Other research works
- Report
Ahmad, S. .(2011). The AASHA Experience: A Decade of Struggle Against Sexual Harassment in Pakistan. . , Mehergarh Publications
Ahmad, S. .(2010). "Leaders of Change: Drawing Lessons from Case Studies of Organizations with Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies." . , Mehergarh Publications and ILO
- Review
Ahmad, S. .(2013). "Politics of Exclusion." . Dissertation Reviews , http://dissertationreviews.org/
Ahmad, S. .(2003). "Gender, Politics, and Islam." . Religious Studies Review , Rice University , pp. 205
- Report
| Semester | Title | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 1801 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Directed Research Project | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Food & Culture | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 1702 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Anthropology of Religions | 1701 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Directed Research Project | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Gender and Power | 1602 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Senior Project I | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Qualitative Research Methods | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project II | 1501 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project II | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project I | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 1402 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project I | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Qualitative Research Methods | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Gender and Power | 1401 |
- Past Courses
Semester Title Code Spring Semester 2013-14 Anthropology of Religions 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Independent Study 1302 Fall Semester 2013-14 Senior Project I 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1301 Spring Semester 2012-13 Senior Project II 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Independent Study 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Food & Culture 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1202 Fall Semester 2012-13 Senior Project I 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 Gender and Power 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1201 Spring Semester 2011-12 Anthropology of Religions 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Senior Project II 1102 Fall Semester 2011-12 Senior Project I 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 Independent Study 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1101 Spring Semester 2010-11 Senior Project I 1002 Spring Semester 2010-11 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1002 Fall Semester 2010-11 Independent Study 1001 Fall Semester 2010-11 Food & Culture 1001 Spring Semester 2009-10 Senior Project I 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Independent Study 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Independent Study 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Gender and Power 902 Spring Semester 2009-10 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 902 Fall Semester 2009-10 Anthropology of Religions 901 Fall Semester 2009-10 Independent Study 901 Fall Semester 2009-10 Independent Study 901 Summer Qtr 2008-09 Senior Project 804 Summer Qtr 2008-09 Independent Study 804 Summer Qtr 2008-09 Independent Study 804 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Senior Project 803 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Independent Study 803 Spring Qtr 2008-2009 Independent Study 803 Winter Qtr 2008-09 Senior Project 802 Winter Qtr 2008-09 Food & Culture 802 Winter Qtr 2008-09 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 802 Autumn Qtr 2008-09 Senior Project 801 Autumn Qtr 2008-09 Qualitative Research Methods 801 Autumn Qtr 2008-09 Gender and Power 801 Autumn Qtr 2008-09 SS Independent Study I 801 Spring Qtr 2007-08 Social Sciences Senior Project II 703 Spring Qtr 2007-08 Qualitative Research Methods 703 Spring Qtr 2007-08 Food & Culture 703 Spring Qtr 2007-08 Anthropology of Islam 703 Spring Qtr 2007-08 SS Independent Study I 703 Spring Qtr 2007-08 Social Sciences Senior Project 703 Winter Qtr 2007-08 Food & Culture 702 Autumn Qtr 2007-08 Gender and Power 701 Spring Qtr 2006-07 Anthropology of Islam 603 Winter Qtr 2006-07 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 602