PhD Candidate, Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests: Mariam Rashid is a Ph.D. student whose research explores how colonial, gendered, and racialized factors and conditions affect resettlement, integration, and inclusion of African refugee women in East Africa and other countries of resettlement such as the United States. She employs critical qualitative research with decolonial and diffractive methodologies in her work. Currently, her work examines African refugee women’s voices and perspectives during the processes of resettlement in the United States.
Email: mrashid@umass.edu