Sana Shah

Research Topic

History, memory and Identity in postcolonial nations

Supervisor: Dr Faridah Zaman

Funding : Felix Award

Selected Book Reviews

• Rise of Saffron Power, ed. Mujibur Rehman, published by Political Studies Review, in partnership with Political Studies Association, Sage Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478929920963831

• The Struggle for Equality: India’s Muslims and Rethinking the UPA Experience, in Political Studies Review, Sage Publications, in association with Political Studies Association https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1478929920919606

Selected Press Publications

• Essay: Of voids and voices: A home in exile, published by the Lamp, (a creative writing journal for graduate and professional students supported by the department of English, Queen's University) Volume XIII.

• Article: The memory police, question of history and the political economy of religion, published by Doing Sociology https://doingsociology.org/2023/04/25/the-memory-police-question-of-history-and-the-political-economy-of-religion-sana-shah/

• Article: France Attacks: Questions no one’s asking on Secularism and Religion, published by the Quint https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/muslims-france-attacks-charlie-hebdo-prophet-muhammad-cartoon-controversy-religion-secularism-debate

Selected Paper Presentations:

• Paper presentation at the Achievements and perspectives of cultural and social memory research, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 27th to 29th September, 2023.

• Paper presentation at the 7th Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 3rd July to 7th July 2023.

• Paper presentation at the History of Memory and Emotions Workshop, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom on 6th of March 2023.

• Paper presentation with Jigyasa Sogarwal at the International Memory Studies Conference on Memory in a Digital Age, organized by Centre for Memory Studies,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, from 23rd to 25th August,  2022.

• Paper presentation with Aishwarya Bhattacharyya at the International Conference on Memory in Transition: Intersections, Contestations, Futures, organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, from 3 to 5 March, 2022. 

• Paper Presentation with Aishwarya Bhattacharyya at Eighth Annual Paris Islamophobia Conference on France’s “Separatism” Trope and the Colonial Present, under the aegis of Islamophobia Studies Centre, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, Centre for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, January 2022. 

• Paper presentation at the ECR conference, International Actors and the contestations of liberal democracy, organised by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s Institute of Political Science, The Cluster of Excellence, “Contestation of the Liberal Script” and the Pontificia Universidad Católica do Rio de Janeiro's Institute of International Relations, March 2021.