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Saima Nasar is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, specializing in social and cultural history with a focus on race, empire, and immigration. Committed to interdisciplinary research, she engages in multi-archival studies with future projects aimed at developing comparative interdisciplinary approaches in migration and imperial studies. Her forthcoming book examines the transnational trajectories of Britain's East African Asian population, while her previous work has investigated the historical trauma within post-war Irish diasporic communities. Currently, she leads a five-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust titled 'Welfare Citizenship Intersectional Feminism', and serves as a reviews editor for the journal 'Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration, and Diaspora'. She has been actively involved in teaching a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including modules on 'American Century', 'Global History', 'Decolonization', and 'Black Lives Matter', and supervises various dissertation projects in the field of colonial violence, popular culture, and activism. Nasar has held editorial board positions and is a previous co-director of the Centre for Black Humanities.
University of Bristol • Bristol, England
Teaching and research in social and cultural history with an emphasis on race, empire, and immigration.
Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.