Aly Kassam-Remtulla

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

Career
Kassam-Remtulla was born in Kenya and grew up in Canada. He received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences, Asian American Studies and Anthropology from Stanford University. He then studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, where he received a master's degree, MBA, and doctorate from Oxford University.

Kassam-Remtulla's academic research and teaching concerns immigrant Muslim communities and has been widely cited by scholars of Ismailism, Islam, and those with interests in African Studies. He is a published poet and his writing has appeared in journalism at WIRED, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Magazine.

He is presently working as Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University. Earlier, he worked on advancing diversity for graduate students and faculty members at Princeton and efforts to support Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. He co-founded the Faculty Advancement Network, a national consortium to promote diversity and inclusion in the professoriate community. 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.

He has been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award, the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts and the Alberta Centennial Medal. He also received the Annetta Dieckmann Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois where he founded the Young Advocates Program.

Publications

 * (Dis)Placing Khojas: Forging identities, revitalizing Islam and crafting global Ismailism
 * Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Case Studies of Two American Universities. The United Kingdom, University of Oxford, 2012.
 * Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, ISBN 978-0-8476-9144-9
 * Contours Of The Heart (Asian American Writers Worksh), 1998, ISBN 978-1889876009