Seán M. McLoughlin (born 1969) is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of the Anthropology of Islam at the University of Leeds.
His works use field research, in-depth interviews and documentary analysis to explore the dynamics of Islam and Muslim cultures in contexts of contemporary migration, diaspora and transnationalism.
He works mainly with South Asian heritage Muslim communities in the UK, especially British Pakistanis and Kashmiris in the Northern England.
[1] During the 1990s, McLoughlin completed a Bachelor's degree in Theology and Religious Studies (1990), a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies (1993) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (1997), all at the University of Manchester.
In 1997, he secured a post as Lecturer in World Religions at Liverpool Hope University College.