South Asian

Marshia Akbar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Migration and settlement; geography; identity and intersectionality; South Asian diaspora; ethnic economy; mixed methods research

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Asma Atique

Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies

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Himani Bannerji

Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; class formation; women; India; South Asian Diaspora

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Ranu Basu

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; spatial methodologies; subalterity and education in Cuba, India and Canada

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Jessica Caporusso

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Political ecology; sustainable development; transnational encounters; South Asian Diaspora

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Sabina Chatterjee

Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

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Soma Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Migration and mobility; sovereignty and borders; labour market integration of skilled immigrants; international education migration

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Tania Das Gupta

Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

South Asian diaspora; race and racism; anti-racism; immigration and refugee issues; state policies; women, work and families

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Ena Dua

Associate Professor, Equity Studies and School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University

Nation, race and gender; immigratio; equitn processes; women and healthy policies; criminalization; racialization of masculinity and femininity; globalization; biodiversity; South Asian Diaspora

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Khem Guragain

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Postcolonial; caste; Dalit; Adivasi; tribal; indigenous; subaltern; South Asia; nation-state

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Yasir Hameed

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Public space; citizen engagement; housing equity; social justice in urban policy, planning and design

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Nadia Z. Hasan

Deputy Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims

Transnational feminism; critical race; postcolonial studies; South Asian Studies; religion and gender; Islam; Pakistan; Muslim women; diaspora and migration; Al-Huda

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Anindo Hazra

Course Director, York University

India; South Asia; South Asian diaspora; queer literature; queer theory; postcolonialism; deconstruction; globalization; Human Rights and the Arts; Global Asia

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Zulfikar Hirji

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Muslim societies; production and performance of identity; roles of art, artists and cultural workers in making social change; socio-legal formation of communal identity; family networks and inter-generational migration; South Asian Diaspora

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Amardeep Kaur

Doctoral Candidate, Geography Department, York University

Power and resistance; postcolonial theory; South Asian diaspora and mobility; transnational feminism; cosmopolitanism, East Asia; Hong Kong

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Ali Kazimi

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University

Race; migration; indignity; history; memory; emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies; South Asian Diaspora; India

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Sarah Maiter

Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Race and racism; children and youth; child welfare practice and policy for diverse communities; minority youth and their development; anti-oppressive, anti racist practice; mental health practice and policy for diverse ethno-racial groups

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Stein Monteiro

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Program in Economics, York University

Assimilation; economic, cultural, political out-migration; family migration; Nepal; India

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Arun Mukherjee

Professor, Department of English, York University

Canadian literature; minority Canadian literature; Indian literature; South Asian literature, Dalit literature, diaspora; feminist critical theory; anti-racist literary theory; Postcolonial literature

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Chandan Narayan

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Phonetics; language development in infants; Asian Diaspora

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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages

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Monisha Poojary

Masters student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Panethnicity; South Asian identity; migration; settlement; cultural displacement

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Jassi Ranauta

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Decoloniality; environmental justice; Punjab; Sikh Diaspora in Canada; lived experience; migration; transnationalism

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Vasuki Shanmuganathan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health

Health; colonialism; globalization; race; labour; visual culture; gender; sexuality

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Harini Sivalingam

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Socio-legal Studies, York University

Immigration and refugee law; international and domestic human rights; national security law; South Asian Diaspora

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Deepa Venkatesan

Masters student, joint program in Communication and Culture Studies, York University and Ryerson University

Feminism; postcolonial studies, migration, race, identity, memory, embodiment, culture, Indian and Asian diaspora, storytelling, film making

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Jie Wu

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University

Place; space; environment; Chinatowns; multiculturalism; settler-colonialism; arts; activism

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Harshita Yalamarty

Doctoral Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical transnational feminist and postcolonial theories; women’s movements in India; gendered citizenship practices; religious communities in India; migration and marriage practices; South Asian diaspora

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