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Dr. Nael Bhanji is awarded the Mary McEwan Memorial Award!

May 21, 2019

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Nael Bhanji, who has been awarded the Mary McEwan Memorial Award at York University.  Nael is a professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, and is the 2018-19 Visiting scholar in Sexuality Studies at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University.  His work focuses on connections of necropolitics, racialization, surveillance and counter-terrorism, drawn from critical race theory, trans studies, affect theory and psychoanalysis.

He is currently working on a publication entitled “Trans Necrointimacies: Race and the Chalky Affects of Trans Memorialization”.