Biography

Dr. Mariam Durrani is a decolonial feminist, linguistic anthropologist, and multimodal mediamaker. Her scholarship and advocacy are located at the intersection of global racialization, migration, Muslim youth identity, higher education, and the geopolitics of war in the US, Pakistan, and online. Dr. Durrani's current book project "The Imperial Optic: At the Intersection of Migration, Racialization, and Higher Education," based on long-term (2013-19) ethnography at a private Pakistani university and a public US college, broadens the scale and scope of how we understand the impact of the US empire in/and higher education. Her work against anti-Muslim discrimination and the War on Terror began in 2001 as a student writer and continues today, including work featured in Teen Vogue, Millennial Politics, Voice of America Urdu(public radio), and Pakistani print and broadcast media. She has taught college students for over fifteen years at multiple institutions, including the University of New Mexico, Hunter College, Aga Khan University, and the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Dr. Durrani is currently a professorial lecturer at the School of International Services at American University. Visit Mariam's website: www.mariamdurrani.com