Junaid Rana

Junaid Rana is an associate professor of Asian American Studies with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His interests include transnational cultural studies and diaspora studies; community organizing and social movements; critical and comparative race studies, political economy, and the postcolonial state; and South Asia/Pakistan/US. He is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2011).