AMELIA FAUZIA is a lecturer at the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta. 

Her research interest is related to Islamic history of Indonesia, contemporary issues of Islam in Indonesia, and Islamic philanthropy. She is a Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Community Outreach or Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat (LP2M) of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, and was a visiting fellow at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (UNSW) in 2011. 

She has had research collaboration between her research institute and UNSW since 2011. She was an executive secretary of Center for Language and Culture (later become the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture), 2000-2008 and was Director of the center from 2009 to 2010. 

She holds a PhD in Indonesian history and Islamic studies from the University of Melbourne (2009), based on a research on Islamic philanthropy. She has been focusing on this topic since 2002, when she led a global project on Islamic philanthropy for social justice, collaborating six countries. She holds a master in Islamic Studies from the University of Leiden, writing and doing research on messianic movements in 19th-20th century Java (1998).