Graduate Associate
smehra25[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, York University
Research Keywords:
Islam; Islamophobia; Shia Muslims; multiculturalism
Research Diaspora(s):
Muslim Diaspora
Shantanu Mehra (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at York University. His broad research interests include: race, religion, gender, sovereignty and secularism. For his PhD project, he is focusing on how the Shia Muslim community in Toronto engages with the politics of ‘reasonable accommodation’ as they navigate Islamophobia in the Canadian multicultural public sphere. Before starting his PhD, he did his MA in Anthropology and Religion at the American University of Beirut and Melbourne, respectively. He has been active in the student union at York and serves as an executive in the York University Graduate Student Association (YUGSA).