Tahmina Sobat
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies @ University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
Tahmina Sobat is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. She began the program as a Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC). Sobat earned her law degree from Herat University in 2015 and later completed an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame in 2020. She continued her academic journey as a Fulbright Scholar, earning a second master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2022. Her interdisciplinary research engages transnational feminist theory, epistemic violence, and the politics of representation. Her dissertation critically examines the complex intersections of gender and imperialism in the context of Afghanistan. She employs feminist and postcolonial research methodologies, to challenge systems of power and exclusion. She has contributed to these fields through publications and conference presentations on national and international platforms. Her recent work on Afghan women and peacebuilding, gender apartheid, and transnational feminist solidarities has been published in The Global South, Contending Modernities at the University of Notre Dame, the Gender Policy Report at the University of Minnesota, SIGMA: The South Asian Journal, and beyond.
