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Dr. Izram Chaudry
Lecturer | Department of Sociology and Criminology | University of Bradford
Izram is a Lecturer in the Department for Sociology and Criminology at the University of Bradford. He completed his BA (Hons) at Leeds Beckett University and subsequently his MA and PhD at the University of Leeds. Izram has written on Islamophobia, Whiteness and Critical Race Theory (CRT). More specifically, he has focused on the permeation of Islamophobia within Higher Education settings through microaggressions. His current work focuses on providing explanatory purchase vis-à-vis why Islamophobic microaggressions occur.
Johanna Loock
PhD candidate | School of Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds
Johanna holds an MA in Islamic Studies with a course specialisation of ‘Islam in Europe’ from the Freie Universität Berlin. During her MA, a scholarship allowed her to pursue Religious Studies at New York University and Columbia University. Before that, she gained her BA in Islamic Studies and Geography from the Universität Bern. In her PhD, she is concerned with paradoxes of German citizenship approached through an analysis of state integration politics. Her research interests include Islamophobia, decoloniality, subtle forms of nationalism, (re-)construction of national identity, and processes of racialisation.
Dr. Sheheen Kattiparambil
Lecturer | School of Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds
Sheheen holds a Masters in Modern Middle East from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where his thesis focussed on a decolonial analysis of Persian Gulf piracy in the early nineteenth century. His doctoral thesis demonstrates the possibility of Islamism as a counter-hegemonic movement against forms of racialized governmentality in the context of Muslim political subjectivity in India in relation to Brahminism. His research interests and writings cover Islamophobia, decoloniality, South Asian studies, and speculative fiction.
Dr. Shvetal Vyas Pare
Casual Academic | Flinders University | South Australia
Shvetal did her masters and M.Phil in English from Delhi University. Her areas of interest are critical discourse analysis, decolonial studies, Indian history and Indian literature. She has published academically in Modern Asian Studies and in South Asia, as well as a variety of commentaries and blog posts on diverse platforms. She also does translations for People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), translating from English into Gujarati.
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