Islam; Pakistan; South Asia; anthropology of religion; sectarianism and everyday life; law and literature; technology, soundscapes and urban landscapes and, more recently, theology and inter-religious dialogue between Muslims and Catholics, and the economy with a focus on emergent security systems and Islamic charity in the United States.
Modernity of Religion; The Ethnographic Imagination: Readings in Islam; Anthropology of the Senses; Modern South Asia: City and Everyday Life; Magic, Science and Religion; Modern South Asia: The Occult and Everyday Life; Film, Fate and Law; The Everyday; Anthropology of the Future Naveeda Khan is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her masters in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in 1995. She completed her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003, writing her doctoral dissertation on how sectarian violence is folded into everyday life through processes of mosque construction and violent seizures in Lahore, Pakistan. She is the recipient of numerous research and conference grants from foundations such as, SSRC, Fulbright, NSF, Wenner-Gren, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and The American Philosophical Society. Naveeda has also worked at BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Bangladesh), UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Bangladesh), and the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago). She has edited a book titled Crisis and Beyond: Reevaluating Pakistan forthcoming from Routledge India. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled: “Muslim Perfectionism: Sectarianism and The Passage of a Promise in Pakistan.” And she is writing essays considering the conjoined urban histories of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Naveeda's new work will possibly take her to Rome to study inter-religious dialogue between Muslims and Catholics and keep her in the United States to study issues surrounding Islamic charity within the current security environment. Along with Jane Guyer and Juan Obarrio she is organizing a conference to be held at Johns Hopkins University from May 4-6, 2008 titled “Number as Inventive Frontier.” For more details see http://anthropology.jhu.edu/
- “Muslim Perfectionism: Sectarianism and the Passage of a Promise in Pakistan” in preparation
- Crisis and Beyond: Reevaluating Pakistan Routledge India, forthcoming
- Translation and Introduction to “Letter to Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi” excerpted from Maulana Ludhianvi's Differences within the Community and the Right Path in Islam in South Asia in Practice ed. Barbara Metcalf Princeton University Press, forthcoming
- “The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan” in Enchantments of Modernity ed. Saurabh Dube Routledge India, forthcoming
- “The Speech of Generals: Some Meditations on Pakistan” posted on the SSRC Forum Pakistan in Crisis January 2nd 2008
http://www.ssrc.org/pakistancrisis - “Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected Friendship During Uncertain Times” Cultural Anthropology, May 2006.
http://www.culanth.org/pakistan/ - “Flaws in the Flow: Roads and their Modernity in Pakistan” Social Text, December 2006.
http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/24/4_89/87 - “Trespasses of the State: Ministering the Copyright to Theological Dilemmas” Bare Acts, Sarai Reader 5, (CSDS, Delhi, 2005)
http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/05-bare-acts/01_naveeda.pdf - "Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics" jointly authored with Bhrigu Singh, Deborah Poole and Richard Baxstrom, Theory and Event. Johns Hopkins University Press. Volume 8, Issue 4, 2005.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v008/8.4singh.html - “Inserting 'Culture' into Multiculturalism” Anthropology Today, August 1997.
- “Impacts of Medicaid Managed Care on Immigrants and Refugees” Travelers and Immigrant Aid, Chicago, IL, 1996.
- “Institution Building in Women's Organizations: Participation, Ownership and Autonomy” Journal of Social Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 63, January 1993
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