Graduate Associate
sheemakh[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Political Science, York University
Research Keywords:
Higher education; global security; critical university studies
Research Region(s):
Pakistan, South Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Sheema Khawar is a doctoral candidate in Politics with a focus on decolonial feminist thought and critical surveillance studies. She’s an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the colonial histories of surveillance, racialization and policing in Pakistan and adjacent occupied territories; specifically how colonial security regimes continue to map terror and insecurity onto those marked as ‘suspicious’ bodies.
Her current dissertation project takes up the site of the securitized private university and examines how institutes of higher education are implicated in the global security regimes that emerged in response to the War on Terror.
Previously on the Fulbright grant, she completed her MA in Gender Studies from San Diego State University. Her MA thesis highlights the role of feminist organizing and its contributions towards feminist thought and modes of resistance in taking up public space, especially dhabas in urban Pakistan. S