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Amelia FAUZIA

Amelia FAUZIA

 

 

Amelia Fauzia is a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta. Her research focuses on religion, movements and social change, specifically looking at the relationship between state and civil society. Dr Fauzia received her PhD from the University of Melbourne (2009) where she analysed the state and Muslim civil society through the practice of Islamic philanthropy. She has conducted research on philanthropy, democracy, women and disaster relief on Islam in Indonesia, and Southeast Asia more broadly. Among her publications are Faith and the State, a History of Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia (Brill, 2013) and ‘Penolong Kesengsaraan Umum : Muhammadiyah charitable activism during the Colonial period Indonesia’, Journal of Southeast Asia Research (2017).