معرفی
Ayesha Omer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship examines how infrastructure technologies mediate sociopolitical life, with a focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Her research integrates multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, archival research in Pakistani state archives, visual analysis of digital media content, and policy document analysis. It is supported by grants such as the AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship and NYU Shanghai’s Global Dissertation Fellowship.
- Ph.D. in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University
- Post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania
She has contributed to publications including Media, Culture and Society, ArtNow, and Cultural Studies, and her current book project, Networks of Dust: Media, Infrastructure, and Ecology along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, explores intersections of technological mediation, political sovereignty, and climate justice.
