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Dr. Amina Jamal is a Professor in the field of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her rich educational background includes a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Karachi and a Master's in Education, as well as a PhD in Sociology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Dr. Jamal's research interests center around Islam, gender, and modernity, with a focus on political subjectivities and representations, transnational feminist identities, secularism, and honor-related violence. She is particularly interested in the emergence of new citizen-subjects in the context of complex interplay between gender, race, religion, and sexuality amid changing global dynamics. Her current projects examine the dilemmas faced by feminist and progressive Muslim politics in South Asia, aiming to unravel the nuanced classifications of concepts such as religious/secular and moral/transgressive. Dr. Jamal has received the SSHRC Connections Grant for her symposium on ‘Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms’.
Department of Chemical Engineering