Yasmin Moll

Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is writing a book about new forms of Islamic media and the religious contention they provoke against the backdrop of Egypt’s 2011 revolution. Her research and writing have been supported by numerous national grants and fellowships, including from the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Fulbright-Hays Program. Her publications include articles in Cultural Anthropology, Public Culture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies, among others. She is also a documentary filmmaker and a former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows. She received her PhD in anthropology from New York University in 2015. Moll was a 2010 International Dissertation Research Fellowship program fellow.