Authors

Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines

Yasmin Saikia is professor of history and holds the distinguished Hardt-Nickachos Endowed Chair in Peace Studies at Arizona State University. She had her early education at Aligarh Muslim University in India and completed her MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of three monographs, several edited volumes, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her book, Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India (2005) won the Srikanta Datta best book prize in the Social Sciences and Northeast India from the Nehru Memorial, Delhi, India, and Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (2011) won the Oral History Association Biennial Award, USA (2013). She is a recipient of multiple international fellowships and grants, including the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant (2020-2024), Fulbright fellowship (2009-10), Harry Frank Guggenheim fellowship (2005-07), and multi-year senior fellowships from the American Institutes of Indian, Bangladesh, as well as Pakistan Studies. She serves on several editorial boards and is the Vice-President of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association. She has held academic appointments at Carleton College, Minnesota (1997-99), UNC – Chapel Hill (199-2010), and visiting positions at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia (2011), and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at American University in Cairo (2006).

 

Chad Haines is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. He earned his PhD and MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also earned an MA degree in South Asian studies. His books include Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (Routledge, 2012) and the three co-edited volumes with Yasmin. His research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. He has also been a principal investigator for major university partnership grants from the US Departments of State and Education. He was a tenure-track faculty member at the American University in Cairo, and visiting faculty member at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Hamline University as well as a visiting scholar at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia. 

ARTICLES BY Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines