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Lalaie Ameeriar received an Honors B.A. in Socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto, and a Masters degree and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. From 2008-2011, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. Professor Ameeriar is currently working on a book manuscript (under contract with Duke University Press) that explores the intimate and affective politics of multicultural governance. Focusing on the transnational labor migration of Pakistani Muslim women to Toronto, it examines the sensorial registers by which immigrant bodies become legible to the state. It explores the promise of citizenship and the damage done to it by the threat of alterity. Building on this research, her next project explores the politics of post 9/11 deportation, by focusing on the experiences of South Asian women at the border deemed suspect. South Asian women's border crossings demonstrate the intersections of gender, race, security, and nation in processes of globalization, and illustrate the specific ways these intersections are deeply implicated in the politics of racialization, citizenship and belonging. In 2014, she received the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. She has also received fellowships from the Center for New Racial Studies and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. She has been a fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. In 2010, Professor Ameeriar was named an Emerging Diversity Scholar by the National Center for Institutional Diversity at The University of Michigan.