PhD Student, Political Science
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Farah Adeed (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in political science. He studies state-building and religious authority in Muslim-majority countries, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. His dissertation project asks: Under what conditions do religious education providers accept state oversight? To learn more about Adeed’s research and publications, visit his webpage.
In Spring 2024, Farah received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support his learning Bahasa Indonesia at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. This training is in preparation for his doctoral research, which focuses on the elections and the politics of Islamic organizations in Indonesia. Learn more in our featured article.
In Spring 2026, Farah received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support his fieldwork in Pakistan and Indonesia, where Islamic schools have long operated as parallel sites of moral and political formation, shaping how ordinary people understand law, obligation, and who has the right to govern.