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Sanober Umar

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Sanober Umar
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, York University
E-mail: sumar@yorku.ca

Sanober Umar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at York University. Dr Umar is interested in exploring histories and politics of “racing” and gendering Islam as a religion and how it informs the figure of the Muslim in world politics. She completed her PhD as an Ontario Trillium scholar at Queen’s University in the Department of History and holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and an MA in International Politics and History from the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development (Geneva, Switzerland). In addition to academia, Umar has worked with transnational organizations such as the International Organization of Migration (UN), World Vision, and the Centre for Migration Policy and Society at Oxford University. Umar brings to YCAR her interdisciplinary background, diverse research interests informed by her education and work experience in three continents, and linguistic skills: she reads and writes proficiently in Hindi and Urdu—an asset that has served her scholarship on South Asia and Muslim identity formation.

 

Keywords: Muslim societies; so-called Islamic World; forced migration studies; gender and transnational women’s studies; critical race studies; postcolonial theory; decolonial frameworks; subaltern studies; diaspora studies; critical caste studies

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