Dr. Shahnaz Khan, Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Global Studies

Dr. Khan's interests lie in using postcolonial theories to understand the lives of Muslim women in the diaspora and in Pakistan. She has examined the lives of women imprisoned in Pakistan for Zina (illicit sex). Her examination incorporates narratives of the Zina victims, the social context which incarcerates women as well as the environment in which she textualizes their accounts. As such, her work contributes to transnational feminist methodology and analysis. Currently her interests have expanded to include the affects of Bollywood on the lives of Muslim women in the diaspora. She is the author of two books: Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity and Zina, Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women. Her work has also been published in various journals including in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Review, Meridians: feminism, race and transnationalism and Feminist Studies.