Eva Nisa

Eva Nisa is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU), affiliated with the School of Culture, History & Language. She holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship and serves as an Adjunct Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research bridges cultural anthropology, Islamic studies, and gender studies, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Key areas include the halal economy, digital religion, gender justice, and Muslim social movements.

Education: BA (al-Azhar University, Egypt), MA (Leiden University, Netherlands), PhD (ANU). She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universität Hamburg (Germany) and the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Her work emphasizes intersections of religion, politics, and economy, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Research highlights include analyses of the halal economy's role in class dynamics, digital media's impact on religious identity, and gender-based activism against sexual violence. She co-edits The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology and chairs the ANU Press Islam in Southeast Asia series.

• Key Awards: ARC DECRA Fellowship (2022–2026)
• Active Projects: 'Standardising Halal' (2021–2026), 'Islamic Cultural Economy and Green Islam' (2023–2024)
• Supervision: Registered to advise doctoral students on topics like gender, religion, and Southeast Asian societies.

Her lab teams collaborate internationally on projects involving institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Current research explores transnational halal networks and the impacts of digital platforms on Islamic practices.