Dr. Rahat Zaidi is Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her research expertise focuses on multilingual literacies that clarify intersectional understandings across sociophobia, diversity, immigration, and pluralism. Through her research, she advances social justice and equity, transculturalism, and identity positioning in immigrant and transcultural contexts, all of which are particularly relevant and pertinent to the intertwining social, cultural, and political contexts in which society functions today.

Experience

  • 2021–2025
    Full Professor, University of Calgary
  • 2021–2025
    Research Professor, University of Calgary
  • 2024–2025
    Mobility Chair in Bilingualism, Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, University of Ottawa
  • 2010–2021
    Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Calgary

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