Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Yasmeen M. Abu-Laban is a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. She is a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Abu-Laban's research focus is multiculturalism, human rights, racism, and immigration policies and politics.

Education Abu-Laban completed a bachelor of arts (1988) in political science at the University of Alberta before earning her master's degree (1990) and PhD (1996) in political science from Carleton University.

Career Abu-Laban received the Notely Postdoctoral Fellow grant in 1996 and named assistant professor at the University of Alberta in 1998. She was named full professor in 2008 and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in 2018. In 2019, she was named Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Abu-Laban is a board member of the Centre for Constitutional Studies. She has served as president of the Canadian Political Science Association from 2016 to 2017 and vice-president of the International Political Science Association from 2018 to 2021. In 2022, she was elected president of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.

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