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Nadia Fadil
Bio
Nadia Fadil works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. She studied sociology and anthropology, and obtained a PhD in Social Sciences in 2008 at KU Leuven on a thesis entitled Submitting to God, Submitting to the Self. Secular and Religious trajectories of second-generation Belgian Maghrebi (supervisors: Rudi Laermans & Karel Dobbelaere, FWO Aspirant). After her PhD, she was affiliated as a Postdoctoral Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the European University Institute (2008-2009) and an FWO Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven (2009-2012). She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of California Berkeley (2011-2012) and a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2018). She is currently the Program Director of the Master Programs of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She holds a broad interest on the articulations and transformations of religion and race in a global context. Her own research centers on Islam in Europe (with France, Belgium and the Netherlands as ethnographic site), which she examines both as a living tradition as well as an object of regulation. She draws on this empirical question to reflect on a vast set of theoretical issues such as religion and spirituality, subjectivity and power, ethical selfhood, the body, postcoloniality, governmentality, race and secularism. Additionally, and throughout her different projects, she also works on reimagining ethnography as a site of possibilities, collaboration and solidarity, around which she has launched and co-organizes the seminar series Doing Research Otherwise. Nadia Fadil’s most recent publications include Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions. European configurations (with Monique Scheer and Birgitte Scheplern Johansen, Bloomsbury 2019), Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands. Critical perspectives on Violence and Security (with Martijn de Koning and Francesco Ragazzi, IB Tauris 2019) and a special issue in Contemporary Islam “Envisioning Hijra. The Ethics of leaving and dwelling of European Muslims” (with Annelies Moors and Karel Arnaut, 2021). She is the PI of several ongoing and past research projects on the nexus of religion, migration and race. Amongst them are: Redefining ‘home’: Transnational practices of European Muslims in Montréal and the United Arab Emirates (PI, KU Leuven OT/14/030, 2015-2019) and Deradicalizing the city. Policy assemblage, security and home-making in Brussels, EUrope and Marseille (PI, KU Leuven IDN/20/004, 2020-2024 and FWO/G0D8521N, 2021-2025). She is furthermore involved as a co-promoter in two BELSPO funded projects: ‘Folk, Authority and Radicalism’ (BELSPO, 2016-2022), where she examined the development, negotiation and effects of counter-radicalisation policies at the local level, and REGUIDE: A Holistic, Restorative, and Gendered Approach to Guide Returnees to their Home Countries (2021-2025). She is also a member of the editorial board of the journals Social Compass, Maronnages. Les Questions Raciales au cribles des Sciences Sociales and Re-Orient. The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.
