Baljit Nagra

Biography

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​Dr. Baljit Nagra is currently an Assistant Professor in the Criminology Department at the University of Ottawa. She has previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Ottawa and at York University after receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. Her research aims to understand how racial discourses are rearticulated in the ‘War on Terror’. Her intellectual interest is in learning how racial boundaries are transformed through a language of gender, religion and security, creating ‘legitimate/desirable’ and ‘illegitimate/undesirable’ members of westerns nations, and reproducing past racialized nation state projects. Her research has been published in refereed journals such as the Canadian Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is also the author of a book titled Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post 9/11 that was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. At the University of Ottawa, she is conducting a nation wide study that measures the impact of counter terrorism policies on Muslim communities in Canada. Her main areas of interest are in Race and Ethnicity, National Security and Surveillance, Gender Studies and Qualitative Research.