Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre at LUMS

Dr. Rabia Kamal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS). She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and has previously served as a faculty member in the Anthropology department at the University of San Francisco. Her research brings together scholarship on cultural and visual anthropology, digital technologies and surveillance, and racialization and gender politics in South Asia and the United States. She teaches courses on the anthropology of social media, decolonizing feminism, and qualitative research methods. Her current research project is a multi-sited ethnography located at the nexus of social media and social justice in urban Pakistan.