Sadaf Ahmad is Professor of Anthropology in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS. Sadaf completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University in 2006. She is the author of Transforming Faith: A Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women (2009) and Female Police Officers in Pakistan: Diverse Realities, Continuities and Change (2025). Her larger body of work on gender has consistently examined how patriarchal structures are reproduced and navigated within society and has appeared in several leading journals like Gender and Society and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.