Assistant Professor, Niagara University
Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Honours 2009
Bachelor of Education (2013)
Master of Education (2014)

Zuhra Abawi is an assistant professor in the College of Education at Niagara University Ontario. Her work focuses on the ways that discourses of race, equity and identity are negotiated, mediated and socialized in education. Zuhra's research seeks to re-centre the voices of racialized and Indigenous children, families and educators, by problematizing whiteness and Eurocentric practices and processes of knowledge production, curricula, and discourses embedded in educational institutions from an antiracist and critical race framework. She is the author/co-editor of four books: Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Canadian Insights; Enacting Anti-Racism and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives; The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias-Free Teacher Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce; and Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care.

York's political science program prepared me to be a critical scholar through its focus on unpacking structures of power. As I moved from studying politics to studying education, the knowledge and foundations I learned as a political science student at York served me well as much of my work in education has been centred on educational policy.