Saaz Taher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Public Communication at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Her research lies at the intersection of critical race studies, critical migration and diaspora studies, and feminist epistemologies from the Global South and from critical Muslim traditions.

She examines the structural mechanisms that silence and erase minoritized voices in the public sphere, while also exploring ways to amplify and re-center their perspectives. Her work analyzes the logics of whiteness—along with their invisibilization through forms of white ignorance and white innocence—in order to interrogate how they shape knowledge production, dominant narratives, and institutional practices. She is also interested in forms of resistance, counter-narratives, and the creative practices developed by marginalized groups.

Saaz received her PhD in Political Science from the Université de Montréal in 2022. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethics (2022–2023) and as a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics, in partnership with the PARR project—formerly affiliated with the organization Relais-Femmes (2022–2024). She subsequently completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto Scarborough within the collaborative and community-based research project Refugee States (2024–2025).

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