Dr Toor joined the faculty in 2004, after having received her PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University and was awarded tenure in 2010. She has been an active board member of several Graduate Center institutions: CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Women’s Studies Quarterly and the Committee for Globalization and Social Change. In addition to her book State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan she has published several academic and non-academic writings on the intersection of culture and politics, and ideologies of imperialism (particularly the role played by discourses of race, gender and sexuality). She served on the Chancellor’s Commission for the Mellon-funded Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative at CUNY, and subsequently the BRESI Council. Her most recent scholarship has addressed the race and gender dimensions of the student debt crisis in the US.
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University
2014. (Co-edited with Shefali Chandra). Solidarity. Special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly. Fall.
2014. ‘The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context’. Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia.
2013. ‘Imperialist Feminism Redux’. Dialectical Anthropology 36 (3-4).
2011. ‘Gender, Sexuality and Islam under the Shadow of Empire’. Feminist and Scholar Online 9(3).
2011. State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan. Pluto Press.
2011. ‘How Not to Talk About Muslim Women: Patriarchy, Islam and the Sexual Regulation of Pakistani Women’. In Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews. Steven Seidman, et al (eds). 2nd Ed. Routledge.
2010. ‘The Structural Dimensions of Food Insecurity in Pakistan’. Hunger Pains: Pakistan’s Food Insecurity. Michael Kugelman and Robert M. Hathaway, eds. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, D.C.
2009. ‘Child Labor in Pakistan’s Export Industries’. The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey, ed. Hugh Hindman. M. E. Sharpe.
2005. 'A National Culture for Pakistan: The Political Economy of a Debate'. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (3).
2000. ‘“Indo-Chic”: The Cultural Politics of Consumption in Post-Liberalisation India’. SOAS Literary Review, No. 2.
