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Atiya Husain

Assistant Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies

Degrees:PhD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Email:atiya.husain@carleton.ca

Drawing on the fields of sociology, legal studies, cultural studies, and Black studies, my research program is guided by a fundamental interest in how “race” constitutes a material reality; is an organizing principle in European colonial structures of thought; and is a contested idiom that is claimed and deployed in multiple and often contradictory ways.