Negin Dahya

Professor Negin Dahya completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Psychology at the University of British Columbia, and her M.Ed. and PhD at York University’s Faculty of Education, with a focus on digital media production, learning, and representation among young people of colour. From 2014-2019, Professor Dahya was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Information School in Seattle, WA.

Professor Dahya’s research explores the social and cultural context of digital media production and use with a focus on learning contexts and non-dominant communities. She conduct qualitative, feminist, and visual research with girls and women of colour and other non-dominant communities, including young people who are or have been incarcerated and refugee communities. Her work is situated at the intersection of education, media and cultural studies, and sociotechnical theory, with a focus on postcolonial feminist and critical race theories. Methodologically, she primarily adopts interview methods and visual research methods.

She has also published in the following journals: Comparative Education, American Educational Research Journal, Learning, Media & Technology, and Information, Communication & Society.

• AERA Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award. Awarded, along with colleagues for their paper, Pathways to Educational Success Among Refugees: Connecting Locally and Globally Situated Research, 2018.
• Connaught New Researcher Award. Portraits of Education Change: Refugee Education, Gender and Technology.
• SSHRC Grant. As co-principal investigator for the project, Resilience at the crossroads: a techno-feminist approach to intergenerational culture preservation through storytelling and sense-making within displaced populations.
• Funding Award. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• Funding Award. The Simpson Center for Digital Humanities.