Asma Abdi

Asma Abdi is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter and an incoming Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Manchester. She is a decolonial feminist political theorist and educator with research and teaching interests in feminist and race theory, social reproduction, social movements, and questions of imperialism, war, and sanctions. Her work has appeared in a range of political and feminist journals, including International Feminist Journal of Politics, Social Politics, and Jadaliyya. Her research has received several awards, including the 2025 Political Studies Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation on (in)equality and social justice, and the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on the Middle East.