Kai Abimelek

PhD student (they/he)
kai.abimelek@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Social & Political Geography

Areas of Interest

Settler colonialism, carceral geographies, Queer & Trans Geographies

Biography

Kai Abimelek is a PhD student in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. Their research explores refugee placemaking, queer geographies, and the political imaginaries of ‘home,’ grounded in critical Palestinian geography, diaspora studies, Indigenous geographies, and Black geographies. Kai analyzes geographies of sleep and statelessness through autoethnography, drawing upon their lived experience as a formerly stateless Palestinian.

Supervisor

Dr. Deborah Cowen

Cohort

2025-2026

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
MA Human Geography & Gender And Women's Studies, University of Toronto
BA in Diaspora Studies & Human Geography, University of Toronto