Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies at the University of California, San Diego
About
Shaista Patel is a racialized Pakistani-Canadian Muslim scholar of ritical Muslim Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD in social justice education and graduate certificate in women and gender studies from the University of Toronto. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, the questions she asks draw upon Indigenous, Black, Dalit and anti-caste, Muslim, and transnational feminist theories.
Current Work:
Shaista Patel's past and future publications traverse discrepant spatialities and temporalities in order to re-examine what we know and have yet to learn about entanglements of bodies, colonialism, race, gender, religion, caste, capitalism, and relations of labor. Her first book sets out to assemble an archive of human and other beings to bring different spaces and temporalities into a conversation about transnational and transhistorical making of white settler colonialism in the US and Canada.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Settler-colonialism, caste, Muslim, transnational, knowledge-production
