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Arshad Imtiaz Ali

Associate Professor, University of California Santa Cruz
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arshadali@ucsc.edu

Arshad I. Ali is an educator, community worker, and scholar who studies youth culture, race, identity, and politics. He is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education and Civic Education at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Ali’s research examines the construction of racial identities through exploring questions of democracy, liberalism, and modernity in the lives of youth. He 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 draws upon Muslim and non-Western storywork and ways of knowing to explore how elementary students engage a science curriculum that appreciates multiple, and culturally sustained ways of understanding and engaging science.