Dr. Hajar Yazdiha

Biography

Hajar Yazdiha is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and a faculty affiliate of the USC Equity Research Institute, USC Black Studies Center, and Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. She is currently an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Racial Justice Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights, as well as a Global Scholar at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Yazdiha earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, following her M.A. in Sociology in 2013 and B.A. in English at the University of Virginia. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Ford Foundation and USC, focusing on civil society and social change. Her research interests encompass social movements, race and ethnicity, immigration, and political sociology, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of law and society and collective memory. Dr. Yazdiha has published numerous articles and a book that examine various aspects of racial justice and social equity.

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