{"id":5557,"date":"2022-04-06T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=5557"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:47","slug":"azar-masoumi","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/azar-masoumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Azar Masoumi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. I study the politics of state-controlled refugee protection (particularly in relation to gender-based and queer refugees) as well as the interface between historical change, alternative historiographies and embodied memory. I am currently preparing my multi-method, genealogical research on Canadian refugee protection (Funded by SSHRC and OGS grants) for publication as a book manuscript with UBC Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have two ongoing research projects. First, my colleague Ronak Ghorbani (York University) and I are creating an online Oral History archive on memories of the 1979 Iranian revolution (funded by a Carleton University-SSHRC Knowledge Mobilization Exchange Grant). This project, titled Enghelab Shod<\/em> [Farsi for \u201cThe Revolution Happened\u201d] aims to understand the Iranian revolution from the perspective of everyday folks who lived through it, and emphasizes embodied and affective dimensions of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, I am researching language interpretation services for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) refugees in Canada. This study (funded by FASS Early Career Research Award and Acadia University Research fund) considers both the geopolitics of translation in the global context of sexual imperialism, as well as the structural implications of interpretation as a mode of precarious labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research have been published in peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and includes publications on sex and sovereignty, limitations of feminist legal change, race and neoliberalism, and state multiculturalism. I am a community-engaged researcher with commitment to social justice, and a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently accepting graduate students interested in the fields of critical migration and refugee studies, political sociology, and socio-legal studies, and welcoming inquiries about specific areas of supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2021. \u201cFast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control.\u201d Social & Legal Studies<\/em>. Published online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2021. \u201cContagious Terror: Violence, Haunting and the Work of Refugee Protection.\u201d Studies in Social Justice 15<\/em> (3): 475-496.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2020. \u201c\u2018Some Nice Latin American Music Will Be Played by a Tape Player\u2019: Anti-Racist Critique and the Multicultural State.\u201d Social identities 26<\/em> (5): 705\u2013718.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2020. \u201cThe Battle of Numbers: Refugee Protection, Race, and Neoliberal Politics of Bureaucratic Efficiency.\u201d O\u00f1ati Socio-Legal Series 10<\/em> (6): 1084-1106. Published online 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2019. \u201cThe Politics of \u201cDoing Exactly Nothing\u201d: Feminist Legal Change and Bureaucratic Administration of Refugee Protection.\u201d Feminist Legal Studies 27<\/em> (3), 243-261.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2019. \u201c\u2018Come Out and Be Free!\u2019: Coming Out and the (International) Government of Sexualities.\u201d In Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times<\/em>, edited by Deborah Brock. University of British Columbia Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2018. \u201cCompulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC Narratives.\u201d In Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto<\/em>, edited by Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware. University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2016. \u201c(Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)\/Death.\u201d Social Justice 43<\/em> (4), 22-43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5558,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Azar ","cu_people_last_name":"Masoumi","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[109],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-5557","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology (York University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"azar.masoumi@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2596","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}