Jimil (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Innovation in the Global Fashion industry in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta.

She is an anthropologist of slow and sustainable fashion, a feminist scholar, and an experimental ethnographer. She holds a joint PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Education, Culture, and Society from the University of Pennsylvania. A dedicated interdisciplinary scholar, she is trained in internet studies, earning a graduate certificate in Media Policy and Communication from Penn’s Annenberg School of Communication. She is also trained in creative and digital ethnography, earning a graduate certificate in Experimental Ethnography from the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jimil’s research examines sustainable fashion production and consumption as an innovative fashion system, a digital economy, and a consumer movement. Her dissertation research followed the slow fashion community on Instagram and in the Pacific Northwest through their daily work to transform how clothing is made, bought, and sold. She explores how the transformative potential of sustainable fashion is not without contradiction and traces how consumers, makers, industry professionals, and online community members navigate these constraints.