Shaista Aziz Patel
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Shaista Aziz Patel is a Pakistani scholar and Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). She holds a Ph.D. in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary academic research and writing focus on Critical Muslim Studies, anti-caste critique, Indian Ocean studies, critical race theory, anti-Blackness, and transnational sett
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San Diego, California, United States / Pakistan
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• University of California, San Diego (Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies)
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Shaista Aziz Patel is a Pakistani scholar and Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). She holds a Ph.D. in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary academic research and writing focus on Critical Muslim Studies, anti-caste critique, Indian Ocean studies, critical race theory, anti-Blackness, and transnational settler colonialism, examining the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and caste across South Asia and its global diasporas.