Hamza Esmili

Hamza Esmili is a Researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, following his 2021 PhD defense at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). Previously, he conducted visiting research at UC Berkeley's Anthropology Department in 2019 after academic training at École normale supérieure de Paris.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Anthropology of Religions, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), 2021
• Academic Training, École normale supérieure de Paris

Dr. Esmili's research investigates persecution, hope, and historical consciousness among marginalized Muslim communities through long-term fieldwork in Morocco, France, Belgium, the Syrian-Turkish border, and Iraq. His multilingual approach (Arabic, English, French, with Tamazight and Biblical Hebrew in progress) centers on how religious experience intertwines with historical awareness in contexts of marginalization.

His scholarship appears in leading journals including Journal des anthropologues, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, with two forthcoming books: a revised dissertation at Éditions du Seuil and an analysis of France's 'Muslim question' debate at Éditions Amsterdam.

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