Contributors
- Contributors
Debjani Bhattacharyya is an assistant professor of history at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her work deals with the relation between law, economy, and environment in South Asia. Currently she is completing her first book manuscript, “Hydrologics: Property, Law, and the Urban Environment in the Bengal Delta.”
Talinn Grigor (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005) is a professor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Her research concentrates on the cross-pollination of art and (post)colonial politics, focused on Iran and India. Her books include Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (Reaktion Books, 2014); Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis, with Sussan Babaie (I. B. Tauris, 2015); and Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs (Periscope, 2009).
Aniket Jaaware currently teaches English at the Shiv Nadar University. His other translations include Jotirao Phule’s A Cultivator’s Whipcord. His new book, Touch: A Study of Caste, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.
Alexander Jabbari is a PhD candidate in comparative literature with a graduate emphasis in feminist studies at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation examines Persian and Urdu literary history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He can be contacted by e-mail at alexander@jabbari.org.
Mana Kia is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She is interested in comparative and connective social and cultural histories of West, Central, and South Asia (from roughly the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), about which she has published a number of articles. She is currently finishing a book titled “Sensibilities of Belonging: Transregional Persianate Communities before Nationalism” and has begun a project on various forms of companionship between early modern Iran and India.
Afshin Marashi is an associate professor of Iranian studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870–1940 (University of Washington Press, 2008) and the coeditor, with Kamran Aghaie, of Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas Press, 2014).
Margrit Pernau is a senior researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She studied history and public law at the University of Saarland and the University of Heidelberg, where she took her PhD in 1991. From 1997 to 2003 she conducted research in Delhi, completing the project titled “Plural Identities of Muslims in Old-Delhi in the Nineteenth Century,” and has been a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and at the Modern Orient Centre in Berlin. Besides the history of emotions her areas of interest include modern Indian history, the history of modern Islam, historical semantics, comparative studies, and translation studies.
Christine Philliou is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the CSSAAME editorial collective.
Wandana Sonalkar has an MA in economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in economics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India. She has been writing on gender and caste issues for many years. She has published translations from Marathi into English of fiction, poetry, and various kinds of writing, including some of the poems of Tulsi Parab. She is at present a professor of women’s studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Farzin Vejdani is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University. He is the author of Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture (Stanford University Press, 2014), which explores how new cultural institutions and an expanding public sphere shaped history-writing and nationalism in Iran. He has also coedited Iran Facing Others: [End Page 505] Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) and published articles on folklore, print networks, and crime in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of Religious History, and the Journal of Persianate Studies. [End Page 506]
