Pedrom Nasiri MStJ

Doctoral Candidate | Sociologist | Research Project Coordinator

Pedrom is a non-binary, queer, mixed-race doctoral candidate and research project coordinator in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary.

Their research interests lie at the intersections of sociology of families, im/migration, law, queer sociology, intersectionality, and critical phenomenology.

Pedrom is currently working on three funded research projects. The first project, Writing PolyQueer Worlds, examines the increasing prevalence of multiple-partner families and their articulations with ongoing race, gender, and class formation projects. The second project, now completed, examines the social resilience of Canadian polyqueer families. (Results of this project will be released in 2023.) The final project, YARI-Collective, is funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and explores how newcomer youth perceptions, experiences, and interpretations of race, racism, and anti-racism transform during the re/settlement processes and how such transformations may inform re/settlement programs and services in anti-racist ways. The Principal Investigators for this project are Dr Pallavi Banerjee and (Co-PI) Dr Pratim Sengupta.

As a member of non-monogamous families and communities, Pedrom’s academic and community scholarship is committed to challenging taken-for-granted assumptions about kinning practices and dismantling inequitable legal, political, and economic regimes impacting families in their everyday lives.