Safia Aidid

Safia Aidid

First Name: 
Safia
Last Name: 
Aidid
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Assistant Professor (She/Her)
Biography : 

Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Africa and Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Centre at UofT. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research addresses anticolonial nationalism, territorial imaginations, borders, and state formation in the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on modern Somalia and Ethiopia. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Pan-Somali Dreams: Ethiopia, Greater Somalia, and the Somali Nationalist Imagination."

Education: 
PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, University of Toronto

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African Studies Centre, New College

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Learn more about Safia Aidid, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.