Sasha A. Khan
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Present
Former
​A.B.D.
Incoming Ph.D. Student. Multicultural Women's & Gender Studies. Texas Woman's University.
Ph.D. Candidate. Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. ​Trans of Color Critiques Concentration. Queer Studies Minor. ​Oregon State University.
2017
M.A. Gender & Cultural Studies. Simmons University. Constructing the Queer Muslim: The Necropolitics of Racialization & Western Sexual Exceptionalism in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Muslims (Thesis).
2015
B.S. Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies. Gender & Sexuality Studies (Concentration). Clarkson University.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications

Textbook Sidebars

2019


​2019
Khan, Sasha A. "Western Sexual Exceptionalism." In ​Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions (7th edition), edited by Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Khan, Sasha A. "Queer/Trans Muslim Activism." In Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions (7th edition), edited by Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

AWARDS & HONORS

2022-24
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2018
2017
​2015-17
Merit-Based Graduate Student Assistantship ($41,000 package). School of Library & Information Science. Simmons University.
Graduate Student Travel Grant ($400).  The Center for the Humanities. Oregon State University.
PCOSW Scholarship ($200). Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. Oregon State University.
Merit-Based Graduate Student Scholarship ($14,000). Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Cultural Studies. Simmons University.
2015
Hazel Dick Leonard Fellowship ($2,500). Simmons University. 

PRESENTATIONS

Papers

2026
Wild Embodiments, Decolonial Feminisms, and an Islamic Praxis of Imagination. Knowing in Bodies/Knowledge Embodies: Strategies for Healing Through Multiplicitous Approaches to Embodiment [Panel]. National Women's Studies Association. Atlanta, GA: November 2026.
2024
Gupshup with Ghosts: A Haunted Praxis of Embodied Storytelling. 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Virtual Presentation: May 2024.
2020
Queer Diasporic Poetics: Disrupting Projects of Occupation in and beyond South Asia. Colonial Geographies: Queer Transnational Feminist Imaginaries [Panel]. National Women’s Studies Association. Minneapolis, MN: November 2020. [When the conference was postponed due to the pandemic, my presentation was cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.]
2020
​ Autoimmunity: A Reflection on Crip/Mad Epistemology and Kinship. Maddening/Cripping Scholarship-Activism: Pursuing the Radical Political Potential of Mad Studies and Disability Studies [Panel]. Society for Disability Studies. Columbus, OH: April 2020. (The conference was converted to a virtual format due to the pandemic.)
2019
Crazy Quilt: Crip/Mad Embodied Storytelling through Spacetime. Cracked Method/ologies: Ancestrally Ascendantly Co-Created Work as Mad Cripistemologies [Panel]. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.
2019
Diasporic World-Making: Queer/Trans Muslim Storytelling. Queer/Trans Muslim Storytelling: Resistant Pasts, Presents, and Futures [Panel]. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.
2019
Reconfiguring the ‘Terrorist’ as ‘Pathan’: A Maddened Politics of Fugitivity. Association for Asian American Studies. Madison, WI: April 2019.
2018
Autoimmune: A ‘Medicinal History’ of Embodied Trauma in the Medical-Industrial Complex. Embodied Rememberings of Healing: Disrupting Settler Temporalities Across Spacetime [Panel]. National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA: November 2018.
2018
Autoimmune: Unruliness in the Medical-Industrial Complex. Queering Care and Cure [Panel]. Queer Feminist and Trans Studies Research Cluster. UC Davis. Davis, CA: May 2018.
2018
A Queer Crip Mad Critique of the Medical-Industrial Complex [Co-Presented]. Insecurities in the Flesh: Navigating the Medical-Industrial Complex [Panel]. 37th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Lewis and Clark College. Portland, OR: March 2018
2017
The Erotic as Resistance to Settler Colonial Heteropatriarchy in Sovereign Erotics. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. 38th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM: February 2017
2016
Transgender-Inclusive Young Adult Literature. Trans* Studies: An International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. Transgender Studies Initiative. Institute for LGBT Studies. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ: September 2016

Roundtables

2019
Am I Doing It Right? Interrupting Internalized Institutionality as WGSS Doctoral Students. National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA: November 2019.

Workshops & Trainings

2019
Beyond Disposability: Transformative Justice as ‘Ordinary’ Care Work [Co-Facilitated]. 38th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Lewis and Clark College. Portland, OR: March 2019.

Campus Talks

2020
Mad Studies/Mad Scholars: Ideas Matter Public Lecture Series. School of History, Philosophy, & Religion and the OSU Disability Network. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: May 25, 2020. (This event was cancelled due to the pandemic.)
2019
A Genealogy of Un/belonging for Trans Studies. Graduate Student Trans Studies Panel with Dr. Susan Stryker. Moderated by Dr. H. Rakes’ QS 573: Trans Lives. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: January 2019.
2018
The Im/Possibility of Care: A Roundtable. Disability Studies Research Cluster. The Center for the Humanities. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: October 2018.

TEACHING

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OSU: Oregon State University | SU: Simmons University | F2F: Face-to-Face | EC: E-Campus

Instructor of Record

Introductory Courses

Instruction to Queer Studies (OSU)
  • Fall 2018 (F2F)
  • Fall 2019 (F2F)

Introduction to Ethnic Studies (OSU)
  • Fall 2019 (EC)
  • Winter 2020 (EC)
  • Spring 2020 (EC)
  • Fall 2020 (EC)

Advanced Courses

Disney: Gender, Race, Empire (OSU)
  • Fall 2017 (EC)
  • Winter 2018 (EC)
  • Spring 2018 (EC)
  • Winter 2019 (F2F)
  • Spring 2020 (EC)

Gender & Transnational Studies (OSU)
  • Fall 2019 (EC)

​Systems of Oppression (OSU)
  • Fall 2020 (EC)

Teaching Assistant

Introductory Courses

​Women in World Cinema (OSU)
  • ​Fall 2017 (Dr. Mehra Shirazi, F2F)

​Transnational Studies (SU)
  • ​Spring 2016 (Dr. Jyoti Puri, F2F)

Admissions Essay Reader

2018-19: Admissions Essay Reader for the Honors College at Oregon State University

Writing Center Tutor

2014-15  Writing Center Tutor at Clarkson University

​My primary responsibility was to help international graduate students--particularly those for whom English was not their primary language--to edit & revise their theses & dissertations. I also assisted undergraduate students at all stages of the writing process.

LANGUAGES

English -- Fluent
German -- Conversational
Urdu -- Conversational