Daromir Rudnyckyj is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research addresses globalization, religion, development, Islam, and the state in Southeast Asia, focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. His current research examines the globalization of Islamic finance and analyzes efforts to make Kuala Lumpur a central node in a transnational Islamic financial system. His books include
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development (Cornell UP) and the edited volume
Religion and the Morality of the Market (Cambridge UP, co-edited with Filippo Osella). He was awarded a Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society in 2011. His research has been supported by the American Council for Learned Societies, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and other scholarly foundations.
