Dr Surer Mohamed

Dr Mohamed completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge in 2021 where her doctoral research considered post-conflict urban reconstruction and conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. Dr Mohamed joined Pembroke College as the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow in October 2021 and her research develops academic studies on the politics of urban belonging in Africa, the aftermaths of political violence in cities, as well as offering a reading of Somali politics that moves beyond the stale categorizations of anarchy and tribalism.

Dr Mohamed is the recipient of the David and Elaine Potter Cambridge Trust Scholarship, and she is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellow. Broadly defined, Dr Mohamed’s research interests include space and urban post-conflict reconstruction, contested memory and discourses of belonging after war, and the politics of knowledge production in the Horn of Africa.