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Dr. Sonali Thakkar is Associate Professor in NYU's Department of English, College of Arts and Science. Her research examines the entanglement of anticolonial thought with postwar political developments including human rights institutionalization, Holocaust memory politics, and race science. Previously at University of Chicago, she has developed curricula in human rights and gender studies.
Education:
- PhD English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- MA Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
- BA International Relations and English, University of Toronto
Research explores postcolonial theory's intersections with critical human rights, Jewish studies, and memory politics through concepts of racial plasticity and repair. Publications examine UNESCO's role in racial reeducation and contemporary reparative paradigms.
Awards and Fellowships:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Mellon Foundation
- Trudeau Foundation
- Neubauer Faculty Development Award
Teaches seminars on 'Violence, Trauma, Repair' and 'Race and the Human in Anticolonial Thought'. Active in Association for Postcolonial Thought and MLA committees.
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