Member Highlights

Iqbal Akhtar | Florida International University

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar moderated the 2022 FIU Mahavir Jayanti Lecture & Award Ceremony. The Mahavir Jayanti lecture "highlighed contemporary resarch being done in Pakistan to explore the country's Jain heritage leading scholars." The lecture and subsequent awards ceremony were recorded and are available on YouTube.

John Mock | UCSC

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Dr. John Mock contributed two chapters to the newly published book "Languages of Northern Pakistan: Essays in Memory of Carla Radloff", J. Baart, H. Liljeren, T. Payne, eds. (Karachi OUP, 2022) Dr. Mock's chapters include "Orality, Literacy, and Scholarship: Shifts in Gender, Genre, and Performance of Wakhi Oral Expression" and "Recent Developments in Wakhi Orthography".

Hina Ashraf | Georgetown University

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Dr. Hina Ashraf recently authored a new journal entry in Language Policy, titled "The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study."

Shelby House | University of Washington

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Shelby House's book review for Muhammad Kavesh's publication, "Animal Enthusiasms: Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan," was published in South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies. A full version of the review is available to read here.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan | Montclair State University

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan contributed the Afterword in the edited volume, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture, (eds. W. Anwar, N. Yousef, Routledge, 2022). This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies.