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Umair Rasheed

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Contact Information

702 S Wright Street
3120 Lincoln Hall
Urbana IL 61801
MC 454

Office Hours

Summer 2023: Tuesday/Thursday 1-2 PM Central Time (email for Zoom link); or by appointment.
PhD candidate
Graduate teaching assistant

Biography

Before joining the Sociology Department Ph.D. program, Umair taught as adjunct faculty at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is currently conducting dissertation fieldwork in Pakistan.

Research Interests

Social movements, political parties, state/society relations, class theory, capitalism, religion and politics, urban sociality and politics. 

Education

MA Sociology, University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign 

MA South Asian Studies, University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign

BSc (Hons) Politics and Economics, LUMS, Pakistan

Grants

Department of Sociology Summer Research-Travel Grant 2021 

Awards and Honors

Global South Languages Fellowship 2020-21 (Center for South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC)

Bastian Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowships - Summer 2022, Fall 2023 (Sociology Department, UIUC)

Courses Taught

At UIUC:

Soc 100 Intro to Sociology TA discussion sections (Fall, Spring 2021-22)

SAME 150 Arab Spring, The New Middle East discussion sectiosn (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)

 

At LUMS Pakistan (Adjunct Instructor)

Intro to Pol Science (Spring 2019)

Islamist Social Movements of 20th Century (Fall 2017)

Intro to Pakistan Studies (Fall, Spring 2016-2017) 

 

Highlighted Publications

Book Review: Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan; Men and Masculinities journal May 2022 print edition. Available online: https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1177/1097184X211064324

Report commissioned by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan: Mapping Social Movements in Pakistan 2010-20, Available online: http://hrcp-web.org/hrcpweb/thematic-reports/