Sadaf is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion. Her research explores the formation of contemporary Islam in North America under conditions of modernity and diaspora. It has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
She has publications featured in the volume “Producing Islam(s) in Canada: Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics” (University of Toronto Press), as well as the University of Toronto’s Institute of Islamic Studies’ Reading Muslims project. She currently sits on the council of the Canadian Association for the Study of Islam and Muslims (CASIM), a national body that fosters intellectual exchange for scholars of Islam in a range of disciplines across Canada.
Sadaf has held various organizing and advocacy roles, including as co-chair of the inaugural anti-racism committee of the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion, as a member of the Manitoba Islamic Association’s Islamophobia Committee, and in grassroots initiatives focused on countering anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment across Manitoban and Canadian institutions.