DR. MARIAM DURRANI
Dr. Mariam Durrani is a decolonial feminist scholar, linguistic anthropologist, university professor, and multimodal mediamaker. Her scholarship and advocacy is located at the intersection of global racialization, migration, Muslim youth identity, and higher education studies in the US, in Pakistan, and online. She currently teaches in the International and Intercultural Communication program in the School of International Service at American University. You can find her on twitter @mariamdurrani and on instagram @dr.mariamdurrani and @theroticollective.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Current Book Project: The Imperial Optic
I am currently working on my book project The Imperial Optic: Migration, Racialization, and Higher Education in the U.S. and Pakistan. The manuscript is positioned across in the growing fields of critical university studies, diaspora studies, post-9/11 studies, and Pakistan studies as an interdisciplinary, decolonial feminist analysis of the impact of the post-9/11 US wars on the everyday lives of Pakistani-origin college students in the U.S. and in Pakistani. My manuscript process has been funded through American University's Anti-Racism Research and Policy Center's 2023-2024 Fellow for Transformative Scholarship.
the Roti Collective
The Roti Collective is a collaborative digital research project focused on roti, the unleavened flatbread central to global South Asian cooking and food cultures. This project analyzes roti and roti-making to study the intersections of imperial and familial intimacies within global South Asia. The Roti Collective maps the migration of roti and roti-makers across transoceanic histories of migration and colonial displacement. As a collaborative project, I am working with college students and South Asian community members to curate a social media archive and website.
