Aly Kassam-Remtulla

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Aly Kassam-Remtulla
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Other namesAly Remtulla
CitizenshipCanada/USA
Alma mater Stanford University
Oxford University
Occupation(s)academic, writer and scholar
Years active1996-present
Known forVice Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University

Aly Kassam-Remtulla (also known as Aly Remtulla) is a U.S.-based academic, writer and scholar who is Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University. [1] [2] Previously, he was associated with the MacArthur Foundation. [3]

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Education

Kassam-Remtulla was born in Kenya and grew up in Canada. After completing his high school at the United World Colleges (UWC) USA campus, [4] Aly received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences, Asian American Studies and Anthropology from Stanford University, in 1998. [5] [6] As an undergraduate, he worked in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Paul Berg. [7] He then studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, [8] where he received a master's degree, MBA, and doctorate from Oxford University, in (2012). [9]

Career

Since 1996, Kassam-Remtulla has been an academic researcher and scholar of immigrant Muslim communities. He has been widely cited by scholars of Ismailism, Islam, and those with interests in African Studies. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] He is a published poet and his journalism has appeared in WIRED, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Magazine. [7] [16] [17]

As of 2020, he has been working as Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University. [10] [4] Earlier, he worked on advancing diversity for graduate students and faculty members at Princeton and efforts to support Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. [18] [19] [20] [21] He co-founded and co-chairs the Faculty Advancement Network, a national consortium to promote diversity and inclusion in the American professoriate. [22]

Aly has been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award, the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts [23] and the Alberta Centennial Medal. [24] He also received the Annetta Dieckmann Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois where he founded the Young Advocates Program. [3] [25] In 2022, he was inducted into the Stanford Multicultural Hall of Fame. [26] [6]

Kassam-Remtulla has served on numerous non-profit boards and is the chair of the board of trustees at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya. [27] [28]

In 2021, he was appointed to the board of Allegheny College. [29] In 2021, he joined the UWC-USA board of trustees and became a chair in 2022. [4]

As of October 2021, he has been serving on the Admissions Advisory Panel for the Luce Foundation to develop a more open process for selection of Luce Scholars. [30] As of October 2024, he was serving as a judge for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change $100 million competition. [31]

Publications

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  2. ↑ Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. "Sinophobia, the new Islamophobia". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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