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
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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