Rabia Kamal received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining LUMS, she served as a faculty member in the Anthropology Program at the University of San Francisco for six years. Dr. Kamal’s research brings together scholarship on cultural and visual anthropology, racial and gender politics in the United States and South Asia, and the use of social media and new technologies for political resistance and social change. Her dissertation work focused on the cultural politics of belonging and identity among South Asian American and African American Muslim artists and activists in post-9/11 America. Her current research is a multi-sited ethnography located at the nexus of social media and social justice in the United States and Pakistan and explores the ways in which technology and digital cultures are affecting how young activists are engaging with “the political.”