Please join us in welcoming Post Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Maira Hassan to GRSJ.
Under the supervision of Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry (GRSJ) and Dr. Nadia Hasan (York University), Dr. Hassan leads a joint research project examining anti-racist policies, laws and practices and how they relate to experiences of racialization. Through a combination of academic and community-based perspectives, the project investigates anti-racism policies in organizational structures to unearth processes of systemic racism in its manifold and intersectional manifestations with the aim of providing new pathways and effective strategies for equity and inclusion.
Dr. Maira Hassan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, and the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University. She recently completed her PhD in Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law as a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Her doctoral research was a first of its kind study investigating the gendered racialization of Muslim women complainants in sexual assault cases in Canada. Dr. Hassan also completed her LLM at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia as a recipient of the Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship. She obtained her law degree from Queen Mary University of London and completed her undergraduate degree in Media, Information and Technoculture (MIT) and French literature from the University of Western Ontario. Her previous research work and publications include topics such as, women in Canadian peacekeeping and legal perspectives on extraterritorial policing.
