Adam Ehsan Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. His main research interests include: sport in the post 9/11 era, extremism and deradicalization through sport, sport and national memory/grief, and sport and sustainability.

Hareem Khan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is a cultural anthropologist specializing in consumer cultures, gendered labor, and racialization. Her current research examines the burgeoning South Asian beauty industry in Southern California, focusing specifically on the entanglements of race, labor, and the commodification of cultural aesthetic practices. Previously, she explored how modernity is represented in Indian cosmetics ads and the ways discourses of the “modern Indian woman” get negotiated through daily consumption. Some findings from this research have been published in an anthology on global raciality organized by the UC Center for New Racial Studies.

Sanober Umar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at York University. She is interested in the global histories and politics of gendering and “racing” Islam as a religion. Her upcoming work explores the relationship (and critical differences) between caste and racial hierarchies, and how they subsequently inform the figure of the Muslim in Indian and world politics. She refers to the institutional denial of oppressed Muslim caste histories, and the complex self-genealogies of historically marginalized Muslims as “racialized decastification” which critically intersects with racialized capitalism, border and surveillance regimes, and the rising phenomenon of Aryan Nationalisms in both the Global North and South. Her work therefore foregrounds caste as an important yet overlooked lens of analyzing Muslim identities and societies in a transnational framework.