Member Highlights

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Dr. Natasha Raheja recently published an article in Cultural Anthropology titled "Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border." Dr. Raheja's article examines face-to-face and digitally mediated interactions between Pakistani migrants and Indian politicians in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It argues that proximity is a mode of governance that binds constituents to a wider body politic, while exposing ambivalent state workings.

Michael Hirsch | Huston-Tillotson University

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Michael Hirsch, AIPS member and trustee for Huston-Tillotson University, was recently invited as a guest on the PTV program Diplomatic Enclave, hosted by Omar Khalid Butt. The program originally aired on August 27th but is available to stream here.

Meher Ali | Princeton University

Friday, August 26, 2022

Meher Ali's article, Student Politics Between Imagination and Action: The National Students Federation and the Anti-Ayub Movement in Pakistan, 1956-71 was published in the edited volume: Crises in Authoritarian Regimes: Fragile Orders and Contested Power (edited by Jorg Baberowski and Martin Wagner, Campus Verlag 2022).

Daniel Majchrowicz | Northwestern University

Monday, August 22, 2022

AIPS EC member Dr. Daniel Majchrowicz, along with colleagues Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma, published Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (Indiana University Press, 2022). The book contains a study and excerpted translations of travel writing by Muslim women, and particularly from Urdu. Contributors include AIPS members David Boyk, Asiya Alam, and Andrew Amstutz. Read more here.

Elizabeth Lhost | Dartmouth College

Monday, August 22, 2022

Dr. Elizabeth Lhost's book, Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia, came out in July with the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks series with the University of North Carolina Press. The book will also be featured in an author-meets-reader panel at the upcoming Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison. Read more about the publication here.