Postdoctoral Fellow & Course Instructor (2019-2020)
Sidney Smith Hall 3075
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
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 joins the Department of History at UofT as an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow. 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