Dr. Naved Bakali

• Anti-Racism Education
• Critical Race Theory
• Post-Colonial Studies
• Curriculum Studies
• Critical Pedagogy
• Ethnic/Cultural Studies
• Refugee Education
• Internationalizing and Decolonizing Higher Education
• Educational Programming for Survivors of Trauma
• Islamic Pedagogy

• Anti-Oppressive and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (PJ/IS)
• Issues in Education
• Special Topics: Anti-Racism Education
• Primary/Junior Social Science
• Senior/Intermediate Social Science Year 1
• Senior/Intermediate Social Science Year 2
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
• Technological Integration in the Classroom
• Secondary Practicum
• Elementary Practicum
• Elementary Math and Science Methods

Exceptional Professor for Outstanding Leadership and Mentorship Inside and Outside the Classroom (2022-2023), University of Windsor, Faculty of Education.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2024). Exploring Ontario Preservice Teachers’ Preparedness for Enacting Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. Principal Investigator. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - $58,320 CAD

UWindsor Diversity, Indigeneity, and Anti-Racism Grant (2023). Ontario Preservice Teachers’ Preparedness for Enacting Responsive Pedagogical Practices with Muslim Students. Principal Investigator. University of Windsor Office of the VP EDI - $5000 CAD

Racialized Communities Grant in Family Medicine University of Calgary (2022). Assessing Access and Satisfaction of Pakistani Muslim Immigrant and Refugee population with the Primary Health Care System in Calgary, Canada. Co-Principal Investigator. University of Calgary - $10,000 CAD

University of Windsor Start-up Research Grant (2021-2026). Principal Investigator - $10,000 CAD

International Virtual Academic Collaboration (2020-2021). Teaching for Critical Digital Literacy. Co-Principal Investigator. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) - €66,645 EUR

Al Qasimi Foundation SEED Grant (2019-2020). Education of Tolerance: An Analysis of UAE Islamic Education Curriculum at the Secondary Level. Co-Principal Investigator. Al-Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research - 60,000 AED

American University in Dubai, Faculty Research Grant (2020). Education, Social Mobility, and Trauma: Exploring Educational Programming in Rohingya Refugee Camps. Principal Investigator. American University in Dubai - 10,000 AED

Doctoral Research Grant (2012-2014). Addressing Islamophobia through a cross-curricular approach: Towards a framework for engaging students in critical discussion. Principal Investigator. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et Culture - $60,000 CAD

Bakali, N. & Hafez, F. (Eds). (2022). The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, race, and Islam. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bakali, N. & Memon, N. (Eds). (2021). Teacher training and education in the GCC: Unpacking the complexities and challenges of internationalizing educational contexts. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Bakali, N. (2016). Islamophobia: Understanding anti-Muslim racism through the lived experiences of Muslim youth. Rotterdam: Brill/Sense.

Bakali, N., Ahmed, A., & Qaisi, R. (Forthcoming). “The Masks Have Been Lifted”: Navigating Islamophobia, Political Suppression, and System Bias in Canadian Public Schools. Canadian Ethnic Studies.

Bakali, N. & Oloo, J. (2025). Calling out racial bias and discrimination within institutional settings.  Journal of Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Decolonization. 2(1), 1-3.

Durrani, Z., Mohammed, A., Ilyas, R., Syed, S., Sadia, S.R., Jamal, A., Steinberg, S., Bakali, N., & Zaidi, M. (2024). Islamophobia in North America: A Scoping Review. Journal of Public Policy Practitioners. 3(2),

Bakali, N. (2024). The typologies of global Islamophobia and its manifestations across the global North and South. Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society. 8(2), 124-143.

Bakali, N., Oloo, J., & Major, R. (2024). The emergence of new voices. Journal of Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Decolonization. 1(1), 1-5.

Bakali, N. (2022).  White supremacist mythologies in Canadian educational curricula: How Islamophobia manifests and is perpetuated in Canadian schools. Islamophobia Studies Journal. 7(2), 200-214.

Bakali, N. (2021). Islamophobia in Myanmar: The Rohingya genocide and the ‘War on Terror’. Race and Class. 62(4), 53-71.

Bakali, N. & Wasty, S. (2020). Identity, social mobility, and trauma: Post-conflict educational realities for survivors of the Rohingya genocide. Religions. 11(5) 241.

Alhashmi, M., Bakali, N., & Baroud, R. (2020). Tolerance in UAE Islamic education textbooks. Religions. 11(8) 377.

Bakali, N. (2020). Muslim youth experiences in Quebec secondary schools: Race, racialization, and the ‘dangerous Muslim man’. Directions: Research and Studies on Race Relations in Canada. 8(1), 110-126.

Bakali, N. (2019). Challenging terrorism as a form of “Otherness”: Exploring the parallels between far-right and Muslim religious extremism. Islamophobia Studies Journal. 5(1), 99-115.

Bakali, N. (2018). The redefining of far-right extremist activism along Islamophobic lines. Islamic Perspective. 19(1), 1-18.

Bakali, N. (2018). Employing a Critical Race Curriculum to Challenge Dominant Discourses in Quebec Educational Curricula. Religion and Education. 45(1), 52-72.

Bakali, N. (2015). Contextualizing the Quebec Charter of Values: How the Muslim ‘Other’ is conceptualized in Quebec. Culture and Religion. 16(4), 412-429.

Bakali, N. (2015). Challenging anti-Muslim Racism Through a Critical Race Curriculum in Quebec Secondary Schools. Critical Intersections in Education. 3(1), 19-24.

Bakali, N. (2015). Muslim teachers’ experiences with race and racism in Quebec secondary schools. Canadian Journal of New Scholars in Education. 6(1), 45-54

Bakali, N. (Forthcoming). Canadian Muslims and the Global War on Terror. In Bahdi, R. & Ahmad, F. (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Security, 9/11 and the Canadian Settler Colony. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press.

Bakali, N. & Perry, B. (2025). Securitizing Muslims and the growth of far-Right Extremism in Canada. In Dutta, S, Abbas, T., & Bergh, S. (Eds.),  Global Counter-terrorism: A Decolonial Approach (207-231). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bakali, N. (2025). Racializing Muslim Youth and the French-Canadian Imaginary. In Abdullah, Z. (Ed), The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race (118-130). London: Routledge.

Bakali, N. & Hafez, F. (2022). Islamophobia across the global North and South in the War on Terror. In Bakali, N., & Hafez, F. (Eds), The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, race, and Islam (1-16). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bakali, N. (2022). The Rohingya genocide through the prism of War on Terror logic. In Bakali, N., & Hafez, F. (Eds), The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, race, and Islam (225-241). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bakali, N. & Memon, N. (2021). GCC Teacher Education: Mapping Challenges and Complexities. In Bakali, N., & Memon, N. (Eds), Teacher training and education in the GCC: Unpacking the complexities and challenges of internationalizing education (xi-xix). Lanham: Lexington Books.

Bakali, N. & Alhashmi, M. (2021). Challenges and complexities of religious education in the UAE.  In Bakali, N., & Memon, N. (Eds), Teacher training and education in the GCC: Unpacking the complexities and challenges of internationalizing education (3-19). Lanham: Lexington Books.

Bakali, N. (2021). Seerah (Prophetic History): Curriculum realities and ideals. In Memon, N., Alhashmi, M., & Abdalla, M. (Eds), Curriculum renewal for Islamic education: Critical perspectives on teaching Islam in primary and secondary schools (63-76). London: Routledge.

Bakali, N. & Alhashmi, M. (2021). Islamic Education and youth culture: Exploring the theme of tolerance in UAE Islamic Education classrooms. In Bescumi, E., & Kaposi, I. (Eds), Everyday youth cultures in the Gulf Peninsula: Changes and Challenges (201-216). London: Routledge.

Mubarak, H., & Bakali, N. (2020). Violent, oppressed, and un-American: Muslim women in the American imagination. In Davis, C., & Crane, J. (Eds), The Personal is Political: Body Politics in a Trump World (97-119). Boston: Brill/Sense.

Bakali, N. (2017). Islamophobia in Quebec Secondary Schools: Inquiries into the Experiences of Muslim Male Youth Post-9/11. In Mac an Gaill, M., Haywood, C. (Eds), Schooling a ‘Suspect Community’: Education, neo-liberalism, and Muslim students (145-159). London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Bakali, N. (2015). Quebec identity politics and anti-Muslim bias in Quebec secondary schools. In Napier, D. (Ed), International perspectives on race (and racism): Historical and contemporary considerations in education and society (339-358). New York: Nova Science Publishing.

Mirza, K. & Bakali, N. (2010). Islam: The fundamentals every teacher should know.  In Kincheloe, J., Steinberg, S., & Stonebanks, C. (Eds), Teaching against Islamophobia. (49-64). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.