Bahar Banaei
Bahar Banaei is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded work sits at the intersections of law, humanities, Critical Race Theory, Black studies, and critical citizenship studies. Her dissertation considers the relationships between liberalism, antiblackness, and citizenship, and explores how migrant justice advocacy toward citizenship rights often invokes conceptions of the human that originated in racial slavery.
She is the 2023-2024 Graduate Fellow at the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security as well as a member of the Collaborative for Racial Justice. She is also a guest editor for the upcoming 2024 issue of Topia: Canada’s Journal of Cultural Studies. This special issue is dedicated to the 2023 Care and Cure conference which Bahar co-organized.
Bahar holds a Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from York University and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto where she majored in Literature and Critical Theory and minored in Sociology and Diaspora Studies.
