Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow
Sadaf Ahmed is a PhD Candidate in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Her ethnographic research on second-generation Muslim parents in contemporary Canada explores how Islam is shaped under conditions of diaspora. Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
Fellowship Research Project—From Dislocation to Disinheritance: Generational Parenting in Muslim Canada
My dissertation, entitled “From Dislocation to Disinheritance: Generational Parenting in Muslim Canada,” takes up parenthood as a place of generational self-creation and abandonment under conditions of modern and diaspora. It ethnographically explores how second-generation Muslim parents raised by their revered but hypervisible “immigrant parents”, raise a third generation of Muslim children. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, life-history interviews, and archival research, I show how the recuperations and disavowals second-generation Muslim parents perform reveal both the stakes of modern parenting and the current contours of an Islam in Canada.