Jamila M. H. Mascat is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme and a research affiliate at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University.   

Jamila is also the coordinator of the MA Gender Studies. As a core faculty member, she teaches a variety of courses in Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Race Studies and supervises dissertations on MA, RMA, and PhD levels.  

Her transdisciplinary research works across the fields of Political Philosophy (German Idealism and Marxism in particular), Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Theories, and Critical Race Theories. Her current research interests focus, on the one hand,  on theories of partisanship and political engagement and, on the other hand, on theories of postcolonial justice and postcolonial reparations. 

Before joining Utrecht University in September 2016, Jamila has been lecturing/researching at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris), the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin), the Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples), the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), the Université Paris 8 (Paris) and the Università La Sapienza (Rome). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Siena with a dissertation on Hegel’s critique of the notion of abstraction.