She has a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University (2002). Prof. Burman writes and teaches in the areas of transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies, multi/interculturalism, and urban transformations. She completed a SSHRC-funded research project entitled “Mobile Citizenship, Immobilized Migrants: Detention and Deportation in Canada, Oppositional Activism in Toronto and Montréal”, in 2010. She is part of two FQRSC research groups: Media and Urban Life in Montreal (PI: Will Straw), and Feminist studies of social movements and their cultural infrastructures (PI: Carrie Rentschler). She is pursuing two independent research projects currently: one on vernacular multiculturalism in Canada, and one on the social abandonment of racialized women in Vancouver and Los Angeles.