Irteza Mohyuddin
Honorary Research Fellow

Profile

Biography

March 2022 – February 2025

• Postdoctoral Fellow | Archiving the Inner City: Race and the Politics of Urban Memory Project | Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

August 2015 - May 2022 

• Ph.D. | Joint Degree | Education, Culture, and Society | Anthropology | University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) | University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology (School of Arts & Sciences)

Dissertation Title: “Narratives of Islamic Self-Making: Black Muslim Youth in a Philadelphia Public School”

During the course of my Ph.D., I completed a year of secondary school history teaching methods courses in order to teach in the Philadelphia public schools. 

September 2018-May 2019

• 10th Grade African American History Teacher, Sayre High School, West Philadelphia | Urban Teacher Apprentice Program (UTAP), University of Pennsylvania

August 2014 – May 2015 

• Ed.M. | Education Policy and Management | Harvard University, Graduate School of Education (HGSE) 

September 2009 – June 2013

• B.A. | History | Minor | Political Science | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences                                                
  
  

Research

Overview

Dr. Irteza Mohyuddin recently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is affiliated with the Leverhulme funded project, Archiving the Inner City, under the leadership of Dr. Gareth Millington. The project examines how, by whom and for what purposes the twentieth century ‘inner city’ is remembered, curated and represented. In particular, Dr. Mohyuddin examined how the Seventh Ward in Philadelphia is represented in cultural memory. Her wider interests include exploring how history shapes our present experiences and cultural memory, including within public school classrooms in US high schools. 

Publications

Selected publications

N.B. : Last Name change from Binte-Farid to Mohyuddin.

Published:

• Binte-Farid, I. (2021). “On Their Own Terms: Painting as Self Expression for Black Muslim Youth.” NEOS 13 (1).
• Mohyuddin, I. (2024). “Islam, Whiteness, and American Muslims.” Edited by Abdullah, Z. Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race.
• Mohyuddin, I. (2024). “African Lives Matter Too: Affirming African Heritage Students’ Experience in the History Classroom.” Edited by Watson, V. and Knight-Manuel, M. African Immigrant Youth Literacy, Language, Learning, and Schooling in the Global African Diaspora. Teacher’s College Press.

Accepted:

Book Manuscript

• Millington, Armstrong, Cooper, Mohyuddin, Gampiot, Rainbow, & Sene (2027). Archiving the Inner City. Bristol University Press. 

Articles

• Millington, G. and Mohyuddin, I. (2025). “History as healing: Going into the city with the Philadelphia Black Docents Collective.” Museum and Society.
• Mohyuddin, I. (2025). “Understanding the Intersectional Identities of Black Muslim Youth.” Alliance for African Partnerships Perspective. Michigan State University Press.
• Millington, G. and Mohyuddin, I. “Images Assisting Wor(l)ds: Black History Murals in South and West Philadelphia.” To be submitted to Urban Studies in March 2025.