Associate Professor Zulfikar Hirji has been selected as a York Massey Fellow along with Professor Emilia Nielsen in the Department of Social Science.Massey College is an independent college situated in the University of Toronto campus. During the Fellowship, York-Massey Fellows engage in the activities of the College and contribute to public service through their academic research.
Professor Hirji will be working on two research projects during his time at Massey: Histories and legacies of material culture production on the Swahili Coast focusing on a corpus of 18th-19th century decorated Qur’an manuscripts, and Histories of temporal infrastructures in the Indian Ocean world, focusing on belltowers and clocktowers built by the Portuguese and British Empires.
Professor Zulfikar is an anthropologist and social historian who is interested in how human societies articulate, represent and perform understandings of self, community and other. His research focuses on Muslim societies in a range of historical and contemporary contexts. His other research interests include Anthropology, History, Material Culture, Visual Anthropology, Islam & Muslim Societies and the Indian Ocean & East Africa. Congratulations to both professors on this achievement.
