Fellows » Current Fellows » IHUM Fellow: Lalaie Ameeriar, PhD
Lalaie Ameeriar received an Honors B.A. in Socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto, and a Masters degree and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research interests include globalization, immigration, secularism, multiculturalism, and labor. Her research draws from multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2001 and 2007, with a sustained year and a half of fieldwork between 2002 and 2003, in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, and Toronto, Canada. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Engendering Citizenship: Pakistani-Muslim Women, Unemployment, and the Ethics of Secular Multiculturalism in Diasporic Toronto, which focuses on the transnational labor migration of Pakistani-Muslim women and examines the ways that questions of unemployment are being rationalized and understood by governmental bodies and policy makers as questions of culture and cultural difference.
Lalaie has been a fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She has also taught courses in the Department of Anthropology and the Stanford Program in Feminist Studies.