Dr. Safia Aidid

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian specializing in modern Africa. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Centre at the University of Toronto. Safia holds a PhD from Harvard University, where her research focused on anticolonial nationalism, territorial imaginations, borders, and state formation in the Horn of Africa, with a particular emphasis on modern Somalia and Ethiopia. Her current project includes a book manuscript entitled "Pan-Somali Dreams: Ethiopia, Greater Somalia, Somali Nationalist Imagination."

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Toronto

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:93
Prerequisites
Appropriate four-year bachelor's degree Background in sociological theory and statistics preferred
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Specialization Notes

Department of Sociology