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Current Member

Ayesha Omer

AMIAS Member

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of study

Media Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Humanities

Home institution

York University
Ayesha Omer studies the relationships between media technologies, political sovereignty, and the climate crisis. At the IAS, she will complete a book on dust as the material residue, affective medium, and technological mediation of global networks through an ethnography of Chinese infrastructures in Pakistan's indigenous borderlands.

Visits

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

New York University
Ph.D.
2020

Appointments

York University
2023
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania
2021–2023
Posdoctoral Fellow
Society of Fellows, University of Southern California
2020–2021
Society Fellow