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Education
2018 Ph.D., Social Work, York University
2007 Magisteriate of Social Work, York University
2006 Honours Bachelor of Social Work, York University
2003 Honours Social Service Worker Diploma, Centennial College
Greetings:
I identify as a disabled South Asian cis-queer Muslim woman.
In research and teaching (pedagogically and politically), I draw on interdisciplinary critical perspectives such as: decolonial perspectives, anti-colonial thought and postcolonialism, intersectionality theory, critical race and transnational feminisms, critical social work, structural and AOP social work practice, and liberatory/emancipatory approaches.
I engage in qualitative, community-based, and mixed methods research methodologies (standpoint, ethnographic, narrative, feminist, and interpretivist methods).
My cumulative social work practice has ranged in interdisciplinary non-profit (community, clinical, youth justice, educational) settings with a myriad of individuals and communities. I bring over 10 years of clinical and community-based expertise in mental health and recovery, substance use and addictions, suicide prevention and crisis management, VAW, poverty, and homelessness with many diverse individuals and communities such as queer, women, youth, children and adults. I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses at York University in Social Work, and in the Social Service Worker Diploma Programs at Centennial and Seneca Colleges.
Research Affiliations
- Academic Researcher, Manulife Centre for Community Health Research (MCCHR)
- Research Affiliate, Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC)
My scholarly objective is to progress Critical Social Work Knowledges by co-creating resource capital to support social justice and equity initiatives for diverse 2SLGBTTIQA+ individuals and communities in the Global North. To date, I have been involved in many large-scale, interdisciplinary, Community-based, qualitative and mixed-methods research projects that have produced evidence-based data and critical knowledges benefitting 2SLGBTTIQA+ communities. On one hand, my research outcomes strengthen the edifice of Critical Social Work Knowledges within academe, while also augmenting non-academe/community resource capital informing the helping professions such as healthcare (social, health, religious) and the 2SLGBTTIQA+ community itself. My membership in the 2SLGBTTIQA+ as a South Asian queer Muslim woman with a disability gives me an ‘insider’ status – from which stems my passion for this work.
Below are some active research grants:
2024-2028 Co-Principal Investigator, Our Health: A Community-Based Participatory Study of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) of Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ People Across Canada, CIHR, $2, 610, 366
2024-2026 Co-Investigator, PROCESS: PRinciples to Operationalize Community Engagement, Equity, and Sustainability in South Asian Health Research in Canada, CIHR, $309, 826
2022-2028 Co-Investigator, Interdisciplinary LGBTQ/2S HEALTH Hub: Healing Through Education and Awareness in Stigma Reduction and Lifecourse Training in Health, CIHR, $399, 277
2025, Donald F. Morgenson Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for Student Mentorship
2021, CBRCanada Emerging Community-Based Researcher Award
I supervise graduate students in areas related to my research interests. Please contact by email for more information.
Co-edited peer-reviewed collections in English
- Thawer, R. & Khan, M. (Eds.). (2026, February). Queer and Muslim: On faith, family and healing. Regina Press. https://uofrpress.ca/Books/Q/Queer-and-Muslim
- Jamal, A., Ku, J. & Khan, M. (Eds.). (2025, October). Emerging South Asian feminisms: Critical Canadian perspectives. University of Alberta Press. https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772128222/south-asian-feminisms-in-diaspora/
- Rahman, M. & Khan, M. (Eds.). (2024, October). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55840-5
Co-edited journal special issue (peer reviewed)
- Ngo, A., & Khan, M. (Eds.). (2025, April 19). Care and Control: The Intersections of Professional Helping and Nation-State and/or Citizenship Belonging, Special Issue of Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping Journal, 31 (1). https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/issue/current
Refereed book chapters
- Thawer, R. & Khan, M. (2026). Introduction. In R. Thawer & M. (Eds.). Queer and Muslim: On faith, family and healing (pp. XV- XXVII). Regina Press.
- Khan, M. (2026). Self-Care? No, Thank You. In R. Thawer & M. (Eds.). Queer and Muslim: On faith, family and healing (pp. 39-51). Regina Press.
- Thawer, R. & Khan, M. (2026). Conclusion.In R. Thawer & M. (Eds.). Queer and Muslim: On faith, family and healing (pp. 179-183).
- Jamal, A., Ku, J., & Khan, M. (2025). Introduction. In A. Jamal, J. Ku, & M. Khan. (Eds.). Emerging South Asian feminisms: Critical Canadian perspectives ( XIII- XLI). University of Alberta Press.
- Khan, M. (2025). Queerness and Muslimness in the Lives of South Asian Muslim Women in the Diaspora. In A. Jamal, J. Ku, & M. Khan. (Eds.). Emerging South Asian feminisms: Critical Canadian perspectives (pp.177-193). University of Alberta Press.
- Jamal, A. & Khan, M. (2025). Speculations on Sufism and gender in Canada: Critical dialogue between two racialized scholars. In G. Mercier-Dalphond & M. S. Xavier (Eds.), Sufism in Canada: Weaving Islamic Practice and Contemporary Spirituality (pp. 249-271). Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press.
- Khan, M. (2024). ‘Are Homophobia and Transphobia Inherent Muslim Values?’ Arguing Towards Queer Muslim Inclusion. In M. Rahman & M. Khan (Eds.). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging (pp. 257-285). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
- Khan, M. (2024). The Absence and Presence of Female Same-Sex Eroticism in Muslim Societies and Islam. In M. Rahman & M. Khan (Eds.). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging (pp. 287-314). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
- Khan, M. (2024). Piety and Religion in the Lives of Queer Muslim Women. In M. Rahman & M. Khan (Eds.). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging (pp. 315-335). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
- Rahman, M. & Khan, M. (2024). Concluding Thoughts: The Promise of Queer Muslim Knowledge by Momin Rahman and Maryam Khan. In M. Rahman & M. Khan (Eds.). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging (pp. 339-347). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
- Khan, M. (2024). Building bridges between queer and normative Muslims. In Y. Saikia & C. Haines (Eds.), On othering: Processes and politics of unpeace (pp. 221-243). AB: AU Press.
- Shah, S. & Khan, M. (2023). The impact of systemic Islamophobia on sexually and gender diverse Muslims in Canada. In A.M. Emon (Ed.), Islamophobia: A research agenda (pp. 31-41). UofT Press.
- Khan, M., & Absolon, K. (2023). Meeting on a bridge: Opposing whiteness in social work education and practice/ Begegnung auf einer Brücke: Widerstand gegen die weiße Dominanz in Ausbildung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit (pp. 448-466). In Y. Akbaba & A. M. B. Heinemann (Eds.), Erziehungswissenschaften dekolonisieren: Theoretische debatten und praxisorientierte impulse. Germany: Beltz Juventa.
- Shah, S. & Khan, M. (2023). The search for ethics in research: Learning from non-binary, queer, and trans Muslims. In J. Jean-Pierre, V. Watts, C. E. James, P. Albanese, X. Chen & M. Graydon (Eds.), Reading sociology: Unsettling a settler colonial project & re/writing sociological narratives, (4th ed.). (pp. 140-144). OUP Canada.
Refereed journal articles
- Banerjee A. T., Ismail*, I., Sarwar, A., Parvez, M., Desai*, P., Arora, M., Jayaprakash, T., Kalra, B., Dulai, J., Khan, B., Chiu, M., Rukh-E-Qamar, H., Sabharwal, S., Kaur, A., Lal, A., Khan, M. et al. (2026). PROCESS: A multimethods protocol to develop principles to operationalise community engagement, equity and sustainability in South Asian Health Research. BMJ Open,16 (4). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115614
- Ngo, A. & Khan, M. (2025). Reflections from the Guest Editors: Unraveling Care and Control: The Limits of Professional Helping Within Conditions of Belonging. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping Journal, 31 (1), 5-8.
- Khan, M. & Wilson, C. (2023). We have some reconciliatory work to do: Kitchen table conversations between Black and Brown scholars in Canadian academe. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping Journal, 29(2), 84-97. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/1954
- *Baksh, A. & Khan, M. (2023). Too Muslim to be a feminist and too feminist to be a Muslim? Locating lived experiences of feminism and Muslimness in social work academe. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 1-14. Published online, https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231188732
- McKenzie, C., & Khan, M. (2023). The university and social work under neoliberalism: Where’s the social inclusion for disabled faculty? Journal of Social Inclusion, 11(2), doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6241 [Open Access]
- Khan, M. & Absolon, K. (2022). Meeting on a bridge: Opposing whiteness in social work education and practice. The Canadian Social Work Review / Revue Canadienne de Service Social (CSWR-RCSS), 38(2), 159–178. https://doi.org/10.7202/1086124ar
- Cox*, E., Warren, T., Khan, M., Wilson, C., Cameron, R., Davis, C., Coleman, T., Steffler, J., Coulombe, S., & Woodford, M. (2022). Experiences of discrimination and its impacts on well-being among racialised LGBTQ+ newcomers living in waterloo region, Ontario, Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(5), E2980-E2988. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13743
- SK 552 Practice with Families
- SK 545 Introduction to Ethical Thought and Reflexive Practice
- SK 621 Reflexive Practices
- SK 501 Approaches to Community Organizing and Group Practices
- SK 545 Introduction to Ethical Thought and Reflexive Practice
- SK 508 Reflective Group and Community Practice
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