Author: Yasmin Saikia

Yasmin Saikia has held the Hardt-Nickachos Endowed Chair in Peace Studies since 2010 and is a professor of South Asian history at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Memories, which won the Srikanta Datta Best Book Award on Northeast India and the Social Sciences (2005), and Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh, which was honored with the Oral History Association Biennial Book Award in 2013.Chad Haines is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of religious studies and senior sustainability scholar at Arizona State University. He is the author of Nation, Territory and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (2012) and a forthcoming volume on Muslim modernities, urbanism, and everyday ethics in Cairo, Islamabad, and Dubai.