Anna Shah Hoque (she/they) is a diasporic South Asian-Persian refugee-citizen, independent curator, educator, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Feminist and Gender Studies. Her decolonial feminist ethnography of archival praxis centres Indigenous and South Asian artists and curators in so-called Canada who create living, embodied counter-archives grounded in place-based accountability and relational tension.

She has taught at Carleton University, Concordia University, McGill University, and Mount Allison University. Anna’s scholarship is located within the interstices of decolonial feminisms, Indigenous Studies, Asian settler colonialism, and archival theory.

Anna maintains an independent curatorial and art practice, committed to amplifying underrepresented and overlooked stories. She is currently working on a practice-based experimental documentary about quillwork, matrilineal inheritances and embodied archives with First Nations artist Christine Toulouse.