Sociology Department

Maheen Haider

Ph.D. Student

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Maheen Haider

Contact

McGuinn Hall 410C

Email: maheen.haider@bc.edu

Education

  • M.A., Boston College
  • M.A., University of Sussex (UK)
  • B.Sc., Fatima Jinnah Women University (Pakistan)

Research Interests

Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Race and Media studies, Race, Class, and Gender, Life Couse, Immigration, Globalization and Transnationalism, Muslims, and Qualitative Methods. 

Personal Website

Department

Sociology

Biography

Maheen Haider is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Sociology, where she studies the processes of immigration, acculturation, and issues of race and ethnicity. Her dissertation focuses on the integration strategies of high skilled, non-white, and Muslim immigrants especially Pakistani migrants in the US. She examines the contemporary changes in the immigrant experience that has increasingly become more diverse and complex around the issues of race, religion, and skill levels. Beyond her dissertation a key area of her research examines the construction of the Muslim identity in visual media, specifically the post 9/11 representations of Muslims and Arabs across high grossing Hollywood films.

Publications

  • Forthcoming Haider, Maheen. “Racialization of Muslim body & space in Hollywood." Sociology of Race & Ethnicity.
  • Forthcoming Haider, Maheen. "Gendered acculturation: Pakistani international graduate students navigating U.S. culture." Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • 2018 Haider, Maheen. “Double Consciousness: How Pakistani Graduate Students Navigate their Contested Identities in American Universities.” in International Students from Asia: the Two-Way Street of Learning and Living Globalization by Yingyi Ma and Martha A Garcia-Murillo, Springer -Peer Reviewed Book chapter—Honourable mention and 2nd Place in the 2019 Best Book Award category of Study Abroad & International Students SIG, Comparative and International Education Society.

Fellowships and Awards

  • Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2019/2020, Boston College
  • Donald White Teaching Excellence Award, 2019, Boston College
  • Clough Graduate Fellow 2019/2020 - (previously 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017) Clough Center for the study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
  • Rise3 Fellowship Award-2018/2019
    Research in Social, Economic, and Environmental Equity (RISE3), School of Social-Work Boston College
  • Summer Research Fellowship- 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014
  • Sociology Graduate Student Association travel Grant 2014, 2012

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow (TF)- Boston College

  • SOCY3325.01 Immigration And Identity - Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
  • SOCY 1002 Introductory Sociology – Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016

INVITED TALKS

  • 2018-: Embracing Challenging Conversations: Speaker and Panellist, McGillycuddy-Logue Fellowship Program through the Office of International Programs, Boston College
  • 2018-: Asian representations on social media Speaker and Panellist, UGBC, Office of International Programs, Boston College
  • 2018 - Experiences of International Instructors Panel: Speaker and Panellist, The Center for Teaching Excellence, Boston College
  • 2017 - Harvard Law School - Speaker and Panellist on “Muslim Bans, Refugee Bans, Ending DACA – A Threat to All Our Freedoms How Did We Get Here – and What Can We Do. Sponsored by Council on American-Islamic Relations – Massachusetts (CAIR-MA), National Lawyers Guild – Mass, New England Law Immigration Law Association, Harvard Islamic Society, Northeastern University School of Law.?” Dec 5th 2017

Selected Conference Paper Presentations

  • Forthcoming October 2019 - Harvard Immigration Workshop, Aspirational Mobility: The Resilient Pakistani Muslim immigrant experience in the U.S. 
  • August 2019 - American Sociological Association: Regular Session Racism and Anti-Racism, "The Rationalization of the Muslim body & space in Hollywood", New York
  • May 2018 - Global Studies Association of North America conference, “Globalization, Race, and the New Nationalism,”
  • Race and Media: The Racialization of the Muslim body & space in Hollywood”, Howard University – DC
  • August 2017 – American Sociological Association: Regular session Comparative U.S. Racial Formation “The Racialization of the Muslim body & space in Hollywood”, Montreal, Canada
  • March 2017 – 12th Social Theory Forum program- Students Race and Identity- “Double Consciousness:  How Pakistani Graduate Students Navigate their Contested Identities in American Universities”, U Mass Boston
  • August 2016 – SSSP Regular session “Racial Formation and Racialization of Arabs, Middle Easterners, South Asians, and Muslims – THEMATIC,
  • “Double Consciousness: How Pakistani Graduate Students Navigate their Contested Identities in American Universities” – Seattle
  • August 2015 – American Sociological Association: Regular session on Immigrant Communities–-0.5 generation: Acculturation Strategies and Multifaceted Identity of Pakistani graduate students navigating US culture- Chicago
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