Michael G. Peletz

Michael G. Peletz is a Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, where he joined in 2006 and served as Department Chair from 2009 to 2012. His research focuses on social and cultural theory, gender and sexual diversity, law and social justice, and the cultural politics of Islam and modernity, particularly in Southeast Asia including extensive fieldwork in Malaysia. His most recent book, Sharia Transformations (University of California Press, 2020), examines bureaucratization and Islamization in Malaysia's sharia judiciary.[1][2][3]