Office Location
MW 228
Phone Number
416-287-7321
Email Address
Area Group(s)
- International Relations
- Comparative Politics
Education
- B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto
- M.A., University of Toronto
- Ph.D., McGill University
Aisha S. Ahmad
Associate Professor
Biography
Aisha Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, the Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative and a Senior Researcher of the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Chair of the Board of Directors of Women in International Security-Canada. She is the author of the award-winning book Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has conducted fieldwork in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Mali, Kenya, Iraq, and Lebanon, and has advised both government and international organizations on global security.
Research Interests
- State Failure
- Political Economy
- Political Islam
Recent News
- Aisha Ahmad among Royal Society of Canada’s Class of 2022
- New appointments
- New Trinity College Associates
- Foreign Affairs Best Books 2018
- Aisha Ahmad wins a MAX award
- CPSA Award Winners
- CPSA Award Nominations
- Canada’s deadly new peacekeeping mission to Mali
- 2018 Awards of Excellence
- Islamophobia in Canada