Dr. Rashida Shafiq
Historian of U.S. Foreign Relations, Women's History, and the Cold War
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Dr. Rashida Shafiq is a historian of U.S. foreign relations, women's history, and the Cold War. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches "US and the Cold War." She earned her PhD in History at SMU in 2026 and her BA and MA at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Her research examines Gloria Steinem's eighteen months in India in 1957-58 and how the organizing practices Steinem encountered there, together with the Cold War institutions that shaped her early career, carried into American second-wave feminism. Her writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and on the Wilson Center blog, and her research has been featured in The Guardian and The Daily Star.
SMU History News: Dr. Rashida Shafiq publishes on Gloria Steinem
Dissertation
The Method and the Machinery
Gloria Steinem, India, and the Cold War Making of American Second Wave Feminism, 1956-1972
Ph.D. Dissertation, Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, 2026
Drawing on the fellowship reports Steinem wrote in 1957-58 and archives at Smith College, the Eisenhower Presidential Library, and the Open Society Archives, this study traces how her eighteen months in India and the Cold War institutions that shaped her early career together formed the organizing methods of American second-wave feminism.
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