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Hishaam Aidi
Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
hishaam.aidi@sipa.columbia.edu
ha26@columbia.edu
Biography:
Hishaam Aidi's research interests include the politics of globalization, North-South relations, and social movements. He is currently writing a book on race, immigration, and social movements in Europe.
He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland. He has also worked as a consultant on UNDP's Human Development Report. In 2008-2009, Aidi was named Carnegie Scholar; in 2010-2011, he was Global Fellow at the Open Society Foundation.
At SIPA, he teaches in the MIA Core course, "Conceptual Foundations of International Politics."
Publications:
Hishaam Aidi, Redeploying the State: Corporatism, Neoliberalism and Coalition Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).
Manning Marable and Hishaam Aidi, ed. Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave Macmillan 2009).
Hishaam Aidi, contributing editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, IRAAS (Institute for Research in African-American Studies), Columbia University.
Hishaam has written over the past years on African and Afro-diasporan affairs for various magazines including Africana, The New African, ColorLines, Souls, Socialism and Democracy and MERIP. Selected articles can be found here.
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