Jasmin Habib

Professor and Chair, Political Science
Jasmin Habib

Contact information

Email: jasmin.habib@uwaterloo.ca 

Areas of specialization

  • Global Governance and Global Affairs
  • Human Rights and Humanitarianism
  • Refugee, Diasporic and Exilic Experiences
  • Settler-Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Anti-Racism
  • Nonviolence and Social Justice Movements
  • Research Methodologies in Conflict/War Zones
  • Israel/Palestine Culture and Politics
  • US Culture and Politics
  • Indigenous Practices and Relations

Professor Jasmin Habib holds a PhD in Anthropology (McMaster University) and an MA in International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame). Her research publications focus on the politics of empire and the practices of decolonization with primary interest in the experiences of war-affected refugees in Israel, Palestine, Canada and the United States; indigenous practices and relations of autonomy in North America; and the architecture of consent for contemporary state violence (systemic and direct).

Jasmin Habib’s work is primarily ethnographic and collaborative. Her research methodologies and practices are informed by postcolonial, diaspora, indigenous and feminist theories of the state; and the theories of spatial and visual cultures of violence/non-violence.

Jasmin Habib is General Editor (with Vinh Nuyen) of Passages Series for Wilfrid Laurier Press. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief and Anglophone Editor of Anthropologica, the flagship journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, and General Editor of the Cultural Spaces series

Selected awards

  • 2024 Outstanding Performance Award in Teaching, Research and Service, University of Waterloo
  • 2022 Weaver Tremblay Award for Applied Anthropology, Canadian Anthropology Society
  • 2021 Outstanding Performance Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, University of Waterloo
  • 2018 Outstanding Performance Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, University of Waterloo
  • 2017 Faculty of Arts Service Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2009 Outstanding Performance Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, University of Waterloo

Tri-Council Awards in Support of Research

  • SSHRC Connections Grant, Counter-colonial governance, treaty-making, and territorial rights (Co-applicant; Colin Scott, PI)
  • SSHRC Partnership Grant, Migration and Food (Co-applicant; Jonathan Crush, PI)
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, A Socio-Cultural Mapping of the Canadian Arab Community (Principal Investigator)
  • SSHRC / CRSH Connections Grant. Les Possedes et leurs mondes 2.0 (collaborator with F. Laugrand)

Selected publications

  • Forthcoming: “Identity and Belonging: Arab Canadians, Immigration, And Community”/”Individus Et Communautés D’origine Arabe Au Canada: Identité Et Appartenance” with R. Antonius. In Yves Charbit, Ed. Access to Rights and Effective Economic and Social Protection. Third Volume of the Human Rights in Immigration Countries series. (Springer)
  • 2025. Refugee Experiences of Integration in Small Communities in Canada. Special Issue, Co-edited with M. Almustafa. Refuge: Journal of Refugee Studies. 41:1.
  • 2025. The Other Border: On Canada/US Culture, Politics and Power. Special Issue. Review of International American Studies. Co-edited with Jane Desmond. 18:1.
  • 2025. Amending the Migratory Birds Convention: Reflections of an Indigenous Negotiator, with Philip Awashish. In The Other Border: On Canada/US Culture, Politics and Power. Jasmin Habib and Jane Desmond, Eds. Review of International American Studies. 18:1.
  • 2022. Shirat hano’ar h’kommunisti: exploring the cultural dynamics and influence in the songs of Israeli-Jewish Communist youth in Palestine/Israel. Settler Colonial Studies. with A. Locker-Biletzki.
  • 2019. Israel, Diaspora and the Routes of National Belonging. Second Edition with New Introduction. University of Toronto Press.
  • 2018. Who Shares the Land: Algonquian Territoriality and Land Governance. Special Issue. Melanie Chaplier, Jasmin Habib and Colin Scott, Eds. Anthropologica. 60 (1):1-166.
  • 2018. The Political Economy of Donald J. Trump. In Reading Donald Trump: A Parallax View of the Campaign and Early Presidency. with Michael Howard. J. Kowalski, Ed. Evolving American Presidency Series. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 103-125.
  • 2018. Wall Art and the Presence of Absence. Review of International American Studies. 11(1):175-189.
  • 2018. Hama ve nehederet [Hot and Wonderful]: Home, Belonging, and the Image of the Yored in Israeli Pop Music.with A. Locker-Biletzki. Shofar:Interdisciplinary Journal for Jewish Studies. 36(1):1–28.

Courses taught

  • PSCI254 The Political Documentary
  • PSCI375 Transnational Migration
  • PSCI460 The Cultural Politics of Israel/Palestine
  • PSCI485 Selected Topics in International Political Economy
  • PSCI493 Study Tour
  • INST101 International Studies
  • GGOV600 Global Governance (MA, core)
  • GGOV640 Human Rights in a Globalized World
  • GGOV648 Readings in Global Justice and Human Rights
  • GGOV700 Global Governance (PhD, core)
  • GGOV701 Research Methodologies in Global Governance
  • ANTH202 Principles of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH351 Indigenous Relations and Practices: A Comparative Approach
  • ANTH348 Anthropology of Tourism
  • ANTH352 History of Anthropological Thought
  • ANTH601 Research Seminar, Public Issues Anthropology
  • ANTH608 Theoretical Anthropology, Public Issues Anthropology
  • ANTH614 Qualitative Methods, Public Issues Anthropology