Shozab Raza

Shozab Raza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE/UofT. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, and completed his graduate training from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. His research interests include critical political economy, decolonization, and revolutionary thought and practice, with a focus on South Asia. His current book project, Theory from the Trenches, centers on peasant revolutionaries in Pakistan who creatively theorized across traditions as varied as Marxism and Islam to radically remake the country and indeed the world. Shozab’s research has been published in several journals, including Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Studies in Society and History, while his public writing has appeared in venues like The Guardian and Boston Review. He is also a founding editor of Jamhoor, a critical left magazine on South Asia and its diasporas.