About me
Shiera S. el-Malik is Professor of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches and writes on themes of coloniality, politics, and theory. Her research is guided by an interest in the intersection of politics of knowledge and lived experience, particularly in the political, pedagogical, and diplomatic context of African Political Thought. Most recently, she researched Thomas Sankara’s speeches and Ali Mazrui’s analysis of international politics. Her work is published in the Review of International Studies, Globalizations, African Identities, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Irish Studies of International Affairs, Critical Studies on Security, African and Black Diaspora, Contexto and Journal of Narrative Politics, along with other edited volumes. She co-edited (with Isaac Kamola) Politics of African Anticolonial Archive.
