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Aisha Ahmad is an award-winning scholar in International Security, specializing in international interventions, insurgencies, and complex civil wars. As an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, she serves as a Senior Researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs and holds several fellowships including those at Massey College and the Belfer Center at Harvard. Ahmad is recognized by the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, and was awarded the 2024 International Studies Association’s ISSS Emerging Scholar Award for her significant contributions to security studies. Her research includes fieldwork on conflict dynamics in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and several other countries. Her publication 'Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power' (Oxford University Press, 2017) received multiple accolades, including the 2018 Mershon Center Furniss Award. Ahmad has a long history of advising military, governmental, and organizational leaders in global security policy and has received numerous teaching awards for her contributions to undergraduate education. In recognition of her impact, she has been named one of Toronto’s “most inspiring women” and was celebrated as the “Muslim Woman of the Year” in 2018.
Department of Sociology