Research
Research as Praxis
Since the early 1990s, my research has been structured around 4 distinct types of synergy.
Collaboration with individual researchers/research teams/research centers (the latter always including community members) in the Global South that are brought together to carry out a specific project;
Capacity-building partnerships, especially in terms of institutional twinning and knowledge mobilization that allows direct exchanges across the North-South divide;
University-based interventions to regional, national and global issues of concern in the capacity of an expert, an educator and a public intellectual;
Substantive involvement in the building and sustenance of North-South research networks (formal and informal)
Research Projects
2022-2023 Principal Investigator, DARE project on Teaching Indigenous Politics, pan-faculty resource archive, York University
2022-2023 Principal Investigator, DARE project on Studying Human Suffering, an interactive source webinar, York University
2022 Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, Resident Senior Research Fellow (Patocka Program)
2021 Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, Resident Senior Research Fellow (Europe-Asia Platform)
2018-2020 Principal Investigator, York University Internationalization Grant, project title ‘Ethics of Witnessing”
2018-2019 Pan-University AIF Grant, Participant Faculty, York University, project on the adjudication of special class acceptance of Syrian refugees in Canada
2019 American University of Beirut, guest faculty grant for the workshop A Century of Human Displacement and Dispossession
2018 University of Delhi, guest faculty grant for co-organizing the workshop on States of Statelessness: Perspectives from South East Asia
2017 Confucius Institute Grant for participation at the 2017 Summer Institute for International Scholars (June 17-30), Shanghai University, China
2017 Co-investigator, Canadian Communication Engagement Study 2017, Think for Actions Think Tank, Calgary; supervision of the completion of first nation-wide pilot study on Islamophobia in Canada
2016 MERCATOR Grant for the Workshop on ‘Why People Migrate?’ Bochum University, Ruhr, Germany
2015 Keyman Foundation grant for workshop on Syrian Refugees, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
2011-2014 Transitional Justice International Consortium Seed Grant, SSHRC Cluster Grant derivative
2008-2009 Politics and Law on Indefinite Detentions in Canada, co-researcher with Professor Howard Adelman (part of an Australian funded comparative project in Detentions)
2007-2014 SSHRC Cluster Grant, co-applicant, Refugee Research Network, Center for Refugee Studies, York University
2007-2008 Faculty of Arts Research Grant, “Legacies of Forced Migration and Political Violence in the Diaspora: The Case of Refugees from the Middle East” Pilot Project, York University
2004-2006 Participant Researcher, SSHRC funded international project on Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
2005 Recipient of Harry Crowe Endowment Fund from Centre for Jewish Studies for organizing an international conference on Jewish Diasporas
2006 European Union Foundation grant for participation at the Four Voices: Turkey at the Crossroads workshop, Catholic University, Belgium