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Hossein is board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, The Banker Ladies Council, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy, Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’ and An Economy of Our Own. Hossein is the author of ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism’ (2023) both by Oxford UP. Her new book is ‘The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community based banks’ by the U of Toronto Press. Her forthcoming book is Africana Feminist Political Economy by Cambridge UP.

More recently she was named Research Fellow at the International Advanced Studies Centre for Capitalist Studies at UCL, UK. In 2024 she is the Ujima Cooperative fellow of Feminist Economics, USA. Previously, Hossein has held visiting professorships at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, University of Guyana, UWI St. Augustine, Trinidad and Jadavpur University, India and spent 2019 sabbatical in Malaysia. She has also held a U.S Fulbright Scholarship at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica and Hossein has given keynote lectures in the US, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, Sweden, India, the UK and Thailand.

Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for 9 years in a number of global non-profits and 8 years as a self-employed consultant to the World Bank Group, UNDP, USAID, IRC, CIDA, IADB, and the Aga Khan Foundation.

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Education

PhD in Political Science and collaborative degree with Gender Studies, University of Toronto

MPA Cornell University  

LL.B University of Kent at Canterbury, UK  

BA Hons. Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS

Teaching Interests

• Politics of development 
• Solidarity economies 
• Feminist economics
• Cooperatives 
• Small business and Social enteprises
• Microfinance and alternatives 
• Black Social Economy  
• Political Economy

Research Interests

• Comparative Politics 
• Development 
• Political Economy 
• Qualitative methodologies 
• Gender and Development 
• Intersectionality 
• Black Feminist Theory

Awards and Grants

• Canada Research Chair Tier 2 (2022-2027) 
• 2024 Univ College London Research Fellow at The Centre for Capitalist Studies
• 2024 The Ujima Coop Feminist Economics Fellowship
• The Meridian Credit Union funding and technical support for a ROSCA Federation (2023-2028)
• 2022 Post Growth Fellow, Post Growth Institute  
• Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2026)  
• The Cooperator Group Trust (2021-on-going)
• 2021 The SSHRC and Congress ‘Big Thinking’ Lecture 
• 2021 The IDRC Hopper Lecture, University of Guelph  
• 2020 NCOBPS Rodney Higgins faculty Award for best scholarly paper 
• 2020 African Diaspora Special Interest Group’s Emerging Scholar Award from the Comparative and International Education Society 
• 2018 NCOBPS W.E.B Du Bois Distinguished Book Award  
• 2018 Agarwal IAFFE Feminist economics Book Award  
• 2017 Helen Potter Award Association of Social Economics  
• SSHRC Insight Development (2017-2020) 
• 2010 US Fulbright Award  

Publications

The Banker Ladies (2021), directed by Haitian-Canadian film maker, Esery Mondesir, open-access documentary, hosted by Films for Action:  

Podcast “Banker Ladies and the social economy, Frontiers of Commoning by David Bollier: 

Four open-access articles: 

C.Hossein and Bonsu, S.K. 2023. "Situating the West African System of Collectivity." Rethinking Marxism.

C. Hossein and Dahiya, A. 2022. “Recognizing ROSCAs.” Making it Plain.  *authored with GDS student 

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C. Hossein 2019. “A Black Epistemology for the Social and Solidarity Economy: The Black Social Economy.” Review of Black Political Economy.