Arshad I. Ali, Ph.D.

Arshad I. Ali, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the George Washington University, where he directs the Education & Inequality Ph.D. concentration. He is concerned with questions of educational possibilities, liberatory moments/movements, and social research methodologies. 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. Dr. Ali regularly speaks and works with colleges and universities, training students in bystander interventions, understanding the context of campus racial aggression, and how to address anti-Muslim racism and violence on campus. He has been actively involved in youth and community organizing for over two decades.

Pronouns: he, him, his

Institution / Organization: GW