Prof. Nina Nurmila, PhD is a Professor of Gender and Islamic Studies at the State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung. Her first degree was in Islamic Education from IAIN SGD Bandung (1992), her MA was from Murdoch University (1997) and her
PhD was from the University of Melbourne (2007). She was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (2000), Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Technology, Sydney (2008), Fulbright Visiting
Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Redlands, California, USA (2008-9). She was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney (2013) and the University van Amsterdam (2015). She is the author of
Women, Islam
and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia (London; New York: Routledge, 2009&2011). She wrote several articles on gender and Islam in the international journals and book chapters published for example at Routledge (London&
New York), Brill (the Netherlands), University of Amsterdam Press (the Netherlands), and Demeter (Canada). Professor Nina Nurmila, PhD currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Education.
About research interest:
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“My research area of interest is gender and Islam in Muslim societies, especially
Indonesia. My recent study is on preventing child marriage by promoting education for
girls”.
