Mitra Fakhrashrafi, MA Student

Home Campus:
U of T Scarborough
Other Degrees:
University of Toronto Critical Development Studies Specialist + City Studies Minor, Honours with Distinction
Honours & Awards:
City of Toronto Regional Champions Protégée, 2017
University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Partnership Fund, 2016
Hart House Good Ideas Fund, 2014
University of Toronto Merit Award, 2012
Supervisor(s):
Dr. Emily Gilbert
Contact Information:
mitra.fakhrashrafi [at] mail.utoronto.ca
twitter: @fakhmitra
Personal Website: www.mitrafakhrashrafi.com
Research Interests:
self-declared artist/archivist interested in everything toronto (read: scarborough). currently studying embodied illegalities and the possibilities/contradictions of toronto’s “sanctuary city” in the context of white settler colonial imaginaries and the nation-state that always already treats non-white bodies as second-class and “illegalized” citizens.
- Geographies of exclusion, racialization, colonial urbanism
- Border imperialism, im/migration
- Multiculturalism, nationalism, and citizenship
- Oral histories and histories of resistance
Teaching This Academic Year:
Teaching Assistant:
GGR321H1F – Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews, and the Environment
GGR240H1S – Geographies of Colonialism in North America
Research Clusters:
Cities and Everyday Life, Political Spaces