Sally Sharif
Student Fellow
Sally Sharif (PhD City University of New York, 2021) is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and an incoming Assistant Professor in comparative politics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. In her research, she explains state-society relations during and after war, explaining why civil wars begin or recur. She is especially interested in peacebuilding; post-conflict state consolidation; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs. Prior to joining UBC, Sally was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame and at Simon Fraser University.
Participating Years
2020–2021
The Agrarian Question Today
In the context of what appears to be inexorable urbanization, it is just as clear that agrarian questions are deeply enmeshed in the political, social, economic, and cultural challenges of contemporary existence. How have newer regimes of capital, particularly those associated with agri-business and food conglomerates, both formed and fractured agricultural communities?