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South Asian

Farah Ahmad
Farah Ahmad
Associate Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University
Health and care; immigration/refugee status, gender and race; South Asian diaspora; primary care; mental health; partner violence; neurodiversity; community-engaged mixed method research
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Lalaie Ameeriar
Lalaie Ameeriar
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Race; racism and racialization; globalization; diaspora; affect and embodiment; labour studies; feminist studies; transnational Muslim cultures
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Himani Bannerji
Himani Bannerji
Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, 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 of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Geographies of marginality; diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; post-colonial geographies; spatial methodologies; anti-imperialism; 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
Associate 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, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
Appointed Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer, 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
Ena Dua
Associate Professor, Equity Studies and School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University
Nation; race and gender; immigration; equity processes; women and healthy policies; criminalization; racialization of masculinity and femininity; globalization; biodiversity; South Asian Diaspora
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Josephine Francis Xavier
Doctoral Student, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University
South Asia; India; fathers; childbearing period (pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum); gender; immigrant; 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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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
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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Aqeel Ihsan
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University
South Asia; South Asian diaspora; immigration and refugee issues; partition; Pakistan; India
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Amardeep Kaur
Amardeep Kaur
Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto
Religious-cultural geography; sensuous geographies; poetics of resistance; Sikh diaspora; cosmopolitanism; Hong Kong; Asian urbanisms; worlding; trans-Pacific movements
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Ali Kazimi
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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Nancy Mandell
Professor, Department of Sociology, York University
Family; intimacy and care work; aging and immigrants; gender and schooling; qualitative methods; community-academic research partnerships
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Chandan Narayan
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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Arun Nedra Rodrigo
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Tamil refugee narratives; translation
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Reena Shadaan
Reena Shadaan
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice
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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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Gobika Sriranganathan
Doctoral student, Socio-Cultural and Policy Studies, Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science, York University

Sport; diasporic studies; leadership; postcolonial feminism; research methodologies; data analysis; social capital; program evaluation; well-being
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Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities
Children and youth; youth, space and race; girlhood studies; transnationalism; youth belonging
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Geetha Sukumaran
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Contemporary Tamil poetry; women's writing; trauma literature and translation
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Harshita Yalamarty
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in 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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