Arshad Ali
· Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education & Civic EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · Education Department — University of California, Santa Cruz
Active 1976–2024
About
Arshad Ali is an educator, community worker, and scholar who studies youth culture, race, identity, and politics. He is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education and Civic Education at UC Santa Cruz, where his research examines the construction of racial identities through exploring questions of democracy, liberalism, and modernity in the lives of youth. Dr. Ali has written extensively on issues relating to the cultural geography of Muslim student surveillance, citizenship, governmentality, and other issues of coloniality and Muslims in Western spaces. His current project explores how elementary students engage with science curricula that incorporate multiple, culturally sustained ways of understanding and engaging with science, drawing upon Muslim and non-Western storywork and ways of knowing.
Labs
Education Department, UC Santa CruzPI
Awards & honors
- 2023. Spencer Foundation Conference Grant. Creating Public M…
- 2022-2023. Spencer Foundation Research Communication Grant.…
- 2021-2022. Visiting Faculty Fellow. Institute for Urban and…
- 2020. Hadi Initiative Research Grant. Muslim Undergraduate S…
- 2020. University Research Mentorship Award. The George Washi…
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