Safia Aidid

Assistant Professor (She/Her)
safia.aidid@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Cross-Appointments

African Studies Centre, New College

Fields of Study

  • Africa
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
  • Social
  • State, Politics, and Law

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