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EDUCATION
CABEIRI DEBERGH ROBINSON
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
(206) 221-4210
e-mail: cdr33@u.washington.edu
2005 Ph. D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Socio-Cultural Anthropology, w/ graduate concentrations in South Asian Studies, Peace
Studies, and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Dissertation title: ‘Refugees, Political Subjectivity, and the Morality of Violence:
Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir’
1999 M.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
1994 Certificate in Advanced Urdu, Berkeley Urdu Language Program, Lahore, Pakistan
1993 B.A. (magna cum laude), Columbia University, New York, NY
Major in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages & Cultures
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
9/2005-pres Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Assistant Professor of International Studies & Adjunct Assist. Prof. of Anthropology
- Core Faculty Member: UW Graduate Faculty, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Near
and Middle East Studies, South Asian Studies Program, International Studies Program,
and Comparative Religions Program
-Associated Faculty Member: Program in Human Rights
9/2009-6/2010 Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Visiting Scholar
2003-2005 Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Acting Assistant Professor of International Studies
1995-1996 Comité International de la Croix-Rouge, (ICRC) Kashmir Mission, India
Delegate
- Interpreter (Urdu/English) for a humanitarian mission monitoring the treatment and
conditions of imprisonment for persons detained in relation to the situation of armed
conflict in the State of Jammu and Kashmir (India). Interpreted and conducted interviews.
POST-DOCTORAL AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS
2009-2010 External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
2009-2010 Faculty Scholar, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Univ. of Washington (declined)
2008 Finalist, Carnegie Scholars Program
2006 Jackson School Student Association Service Award, University of Washington
RESEARCH & TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS
§ Modern South Asia, esp Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir
§ Political Islam/ Comparative Muslim Societies

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§ Socio- Cultural Anthropology/ Political and Legal Anthropology, Historical Anthropology
§ Political Violence/ History and Memory/ Narrative and Discourse/ Symbolic Analysis
§ Armed Conflict, Civil Insurgency and Social Transformation/ Human Rights and
Humanitarianism/ Refugees and Displacement
COURSES TAUGHT
SIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
SISSA 341/ Anth 341 Political Violence and the Post-Colonial State in South Asia
SIS 406/ PolSci 432 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism
SIS 407 Political Islam and Contemporary Islamist Movements
SIS 490/ Anth 469 Special Topics: Anthropology of Contemporary Muslim Societies
SIS 495c Senior Task Force: Humanitarian Relief and Reconstruction Policy after the
South Asia Earthquake
SIS 498 Senior Seminar: Political Islam and Contemporary Islamist Movements
RELIG 502 Seminar in Religious Studies: Sacrificial States: Martyrdom and Modernity
SISSA 512 Graduate Research Design Seminar in SA Studies
SIS 523/ Anth 523 Seminar on Religious and Political Violence
SIS 526/ Anth 526 Seminar on Political Islam
SIS 590 Special Topics: Sacrificial States: Martyrdom and Modernity
N150 International Studies Theory and Practice for International Exchange Students
(Co-instructor)
PUBLICATIONS
Robinson, Cabeiri deBergh
2010 Partition, Its Refugees, and Post-Colonial State Making in South Asia: A Review Essay.
India Review 9(1): 1-19.
2010 Review of Violence and Belonging: Land, Love, and Lethal Conflict in the North-West
Frontier Province of Pakistan by Are Knudsen. Himalaya 29 (1-2): pgs here
2009 Review of Life and Words, Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary by Veena Das.
American Anthropologist 111(1): 116-117.
2005 Refugees, Rights, and the Morality of Violence: From Hijarat to Jihad in Azad Kashmir.
Ph.D. Cornell University. January 2005.
2005 Review of Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace: The Kashmir Dispute by Sumantra Bose.
Journal of Asian Studies 64(1): 218-220.
Accepted for Publication
Book manuscript: Body of the Victim, Body of the Warrior: Refugee Families and the Kashmir Jihad.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Scheduled for December 2012 (ISBN 978-0-520-27421-1)
Revised and Resubmitted
2012 Too Much Nationality: The South Asian Refugee Regime, Kashmiri Refugees, and a Refugee
State, 1947-1971. Journal of Refugee Studies 25(3): pgs TBA

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Revise & Resubmit
(2012) “The South Asian Refugee Regime, International Humanitarianism, and Funding Kashmiri
Refugee Relief in Pakistan, 1947-195l” Reviewers’ comments received from Modern Asian
Studies
(2012) “From Intrigue to Conspiracism: Autobiographical Exposé and the Hidden Hand in Pakistan’s
Conspiratorial Politics” Reviewers’ comments received from Comparative Studies in South Asia,
Africa, and the Middle East
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Solicited Review: Review of City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain by
Amdrew M. Gardner. American Anthropologist 114 (2012).
Solicited Review: Review of Terrifying Muslims by Junaid Rana. American Ethnologist (2012).
Article: “Kashmiri Political Subjectivity, Political Violence, and the Sovereignty of Azad Kashmir”
For submission to Critical Asian Studies
Article: “Earthquakes, Floods, and other Human Disasters: Human Security, Disaster Capitalism, and the
Internal Borders of Pakistan’s Security State” For Submission to Anthropological Quarterly
INVITED LECTURES (selected)
National:
2/18/2008 Title ‘Sex, Death, and the Body of the Living Martyr: the Family and Jihad in Kashmir’
Paper for the Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Chicago
4/20/2007 ‘Faultlines and Lines of Control: Islamic Charities, Islamist Service Committees, and the
Practice of ‘Humanitarian Jihad’ in Kashmir’
Paper Presented for a Workshop on AIslamic Charities and the Muslim World
Hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
12/1/2003 ‘The Martyrdom and the Family in Azad Kashmir’
Paper for the Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Washington
2/23/2003 ‘Making Militants of Refugees: The Exposure of Human Rights Abuses, the Refusal of
Humanitarian Relief, and the Proliferation of Islamic Militant Organizations in Kashmir’
Paper for the Department of Anthropology and S. Asia Program, University of Texas, Austin
International:
12/17/2008 Colloquium on ‘Reflections on Teaching Political Islam to American Undergraduates’
Presentation to M.A. and M.Phil graduate students at the International Islamic University,
Islamabad, Pakistan
12/1-15/2005 Visiting Lectureship in Uzbekistan, Series of 4 Lectures

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Lecture Titles: ‘Anthropology and the Comparative Study of Islam@; ATeaching Political
Islam to American Undergraduates’; ‘Reflections on Teaching Islam without Teaching Middle
East Studies’; ‘Localizing Dissent, Globalizing Islam: Perspectives from Kashmir’
Lectures Presented at Tashkent University, the National Institute of Islamic Studies, and the
Institute of Oriental Studies
12/8/2000 ‘Mediating a Peaceful and Sustainable Resolution to the Kashmir Dispute: A Role for Civil
Society and South Asian Intellectuals’
Lecture Presented to the Fulbright Alumni Association of Pakistan Annual Meeting: Fatima
Jinnah Women=s University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
6/12/2000 ‘Walking from Punjab to Kashmir with the Bakerwal Nomads: The Anthropological Method as
Social Science Methodology’
Lecture Presented at the Area Studies Center, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
INVITED SYMPOSIUM PAPERS
3/30/2012 Title: Too Much Nationality: The South Asian Refugee Regime and Kashmiri Refugees, 1947-
1971. Paper for “Law and Human Rights in Global History” Symposium at the University of
Michigan, Anne Arbor
5/6/11 Title: “Earthquakes, Floods, and other Human Disasters: Human Security, Disaster Capitalism,
and the Internal Borders of Pakistan’s Security State” Conference and Workshop in Islamabad,
Pakistan organized by Quaid-e-Azam University and American Institute of Pakistan Studies
3/6/2011 Title: “The Territoriality of the Refugee Body and the Sovereignty of Azad Kashmir”
Paper for the ‘Grounding Kashmir’ Symposium at Stanford University Humanities Center
5/28/2010 Title: “Humanitarian Internationalism, South Asian Refugees, and the Kashmir Fund 1947-
1951” Paper for the ‘New Approaches to the History of Humanitarianism’ Symposium at
Stanford University
4/18/2010 Title: “Kashmiri Refugees and the South Asian Refugee Regime 1947-1971”
Paper for the ‘Refugees in the Post-WWII world’ Symposium at the University of Arizona,
Pheonix
3/13/2010 Title: “The South Asian Refugee Regime, International Humanitarianism, and Kashmiri
Refugee Identity 1947-1971”
Paper for the ‘Traveling Politics’ Workshop at the Davis Center for Historical Studies,
Princeton University
11/3/2004 Title: “Neither Duty nor Territory: Rights, Justice, and Jihad in Kashmir”
Invited Paper at the Symposium ‘Settling Accounts?: Truth, Justice and Redress in Post-
Conflict Societies’ Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)
National:
11/16/2011 “Humanitarianism, Disaster Capitalism, and Aspiration in Pakistan's Azad Kashmir”
Paper presented as part of the Panel ‘Aspirational Politics’

AAA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
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3/27/2010 “Challenging the Theory of the Causative Agent in Pakistan’s Conspiratorial Politics”
Paper Presented as part of the Panel ‘Conspiracy, Paranoia, and the Apprehension of Politics
in South Asia’
Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10/18/08 “Kashmiri Subjectivity, Political Violence, and the Sovereignty of Azad Kashmir”
Paper Presented as part of the Panel ‘Sovereignty and Statehood in Kashmir’
Annual Conference of South Asian Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
3/24/2007 “Faultlines and Lines of Control: Islamist Charities, Humanitarian Organizations, and the
Pakistan Military in the Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction Project”
Paper Presented as part of the Panel ‘The Changing Role of Politicized Islam in Pakistan’
Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts
10/29/2005 “Trajectories of Relief and the Challenges of Reconstruction in the Disputed Territories of
Kashmir”
Presentation for panel on ‘Feminist Analysis of Hurricane Katrina and the SA Earthquake’ at
conference ‘Feminist Dialogues on Social Justice Conference’, Simpson Center, UW
11/21/2003 “The Political Body in Humanitarian Space: Islam, Refuge, and Violence-Bearing Subjects in
Azad Kashmir”
Paper presented as part of the Panel ‘Interventions: Ethics, logics, Intentions (Part 2)’
AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago
11/21/2002 “Terror and the State: Regimes of Justice Beyond the Rule of Law”
Paper presented as part of the Invited Panel ‘Beyond Identification: Anthropological
Examinations of Truth Telling, Justice, and the Moral Legitimacy of the State’
Sponsored by the Committee for Human Rights, AAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans
10/10/2002 “The Exposure of Human Rights Abuses, the Refusal of Humanitarian Relief, and the
Proliferation of Islamic Militant Organizations in Kashmir”
Invited Paper presented at the Pre-Conference ‘War on Terrorism, War as Terrorism’
Annual Conference of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
10/18/2001 “From the Camp to the Village: Territorializing Refuge in Azad Jammu and Kashmir”
Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of South Asian Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison
International:
10/10/2001 Participant, Invited Roundtable of Kashmir Scholars.
School for Oriental and African Languages, London, England
CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM COMMENTARY (selected)
International:
11/22/08 Chair for Panel “Securing the Homeland”
11 th Annual Conference on American Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad,
Pakistan

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National:
4/5/2008 Chair for SAC Invited Panel “South Asian Social Imagineries: Globalized Modernities”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2008, Atlanta: April 3-6, 2008
Home Institution:
6/5/2009 Discussant for Dr. Martin Lau
Workshop ‘Islamic Law in the Courts: Judicial Interpretation of Shari’a in Modern
Muslim States’, University of Washington School of Law, UW, Seattle
FIELD RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS, & TRAINING
11/08-12/08 Pakistan (2 months): Field research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan on
Islamic religious and militant groups; participation in post-earthquake reconstruction of
civil and government institutions in the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan.
8/06-10/06 Pakistan (3 months): Post-doctoral field research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and
Pakistan=s Northwest Frontier Provinces on Islamic religious and militant groups;
participation in post-earthquake relief and reconstruction efforts. Meetings with civil and
military government administrators.
12/05 Uzbekistan (2 weeks): Invited lecture series (5 lectures) in Tashkent, Samarkand, and
Bukhara and meetings with Uzbek scholars of Central Asian Islam.
11/05 Pakistan (1 month): Field survey in Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan) after the Kashmir
Earthquake of Oct 2005.
8/05-9/05 Pakistan (2 months): Post-doctoral research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan
on cross-border refugee resettlement and jihadist mobilization after 2001.
6/01-9/01 Pakistan (3 months): Doctoral research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan.
Ethnographic research on alliances between political parties, refugee associations, and
cross-border militant organizing and mobilization.
3/99- 12/00 Pakistan (21 months): Doctoral field research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and
Pakistan. Ethnographic research with refugee and migrant communities in Muzaffarabad
District, AJ&K, and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Archival research on the institutional and
legal context of refugee administration in Pakistan conducted in Islamabad.
8/98 India (1 month): Pre-doctoral field and archival survey in Delhi and Kashmir.
6/98-7/98 Pakistan (2 months): Pre-doctoral field and archival survey in Azad Jammu and
Kashmir,
Murree, Rawalpindi, and Lahore.
9/95-10/96 India (13 months): Urdu interpreter for humanitarian mission in Valley of
Kashmir. Srinagar, Jammu, New Delhi.
6/95-7/95 Trinidad and Tobago (1 month): Pre-doctoral field and archival research on Islamic
Moharram ritual in the Caribbean. Examination of the history and contemporary practice of the

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Moharram ritual among the Muslim Indo-Trinidadian community in Trinidad.
9/93-7/94 Pakistan (10 months): Advanced Urdu Language Study. Lahore.
9/91-12/91 India (4 months): College Semester Abroad: School for International Training. Delhi,
Udaipur. Undergraduate thesis research on ritual possession and healing in Rajasthan.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
§ Urdu, Hindi, Dutch (fluent)
§ Kashmiri-Pahari (proficient)
§ Gojari (basic comprehension)
§ French (reading)
DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS
2002-2003 Sage Fellowship for Dissertation Writing at Cornell University
2001-2002 MacArthur Foundation/ Cornell Peace Studies Dissertation Fellowship for
Security & Technology
2001 Mario Einaudi Center, Peace Studies Program Travel Grant
2001 Mario Einaudi Center South Asia Program Dissertation Travel Grant
2000 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship (Extension)
1999-2000 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship
1999-2000 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (Declined)
1998-1999 Fulbright Foundation Research Fellowship
1998-1999 MacArthur Foundation/ Cornell Peace Studies Graduate Fellowship
1998-1999 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship (Declined)
1998 Mario Einaudi Center Predissertation Grant
1997-1998 FLAS Hindi/ Urdu Fellowship
1995-1996 FLAS Hindi/ Urdu Fellowship (Declined)
1994-1995 Sage Fellowship for Graduate Study at Cornell University
1993-1994 Fulbright-Hays Urdu Language Fellow
1993 Magna Cum Laude, Columbia University
POST-DOCTORL CONFERENCE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS & GRANTS
2011 South Asia Program (UW) Curriculum Development Grant
2009 Global Studies Program (UW) Course Development Grant
2007 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Conference Travel Grant
2007 Global Studies Program (UW) Course Development Grant
2006 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Conference Travel Grant
2006 South Asia Program (UW) Curriculum Development Grant
2005 US State Department & Univ. of Washington- Tashkent Consortium Scholar Exchange Grant
PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH (selected)
Teacher Training and Community Education:
5/10/2012 ‘Pakistan’s Political Crisis’
1-day course at Edmonds Community College, CRI
2/25/2009 ‘Overview of Afghanistan Today’

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World Affairs Council Teacher Training on ‘Understanding Afghanistan’ for Washington State
Middle School and High School Teachers
5/8/2005 ‘Constructing Syllabi and Building a Teaching Portfolio’
Faculty Facilitator, Pedagogy Workshop for Advanced PhD students
International Symposium and Conference, ‘Islam, Asia, Modernity’ at Univ. Washington
7/16-17/2004 ‘Human Rights, Islam, and Global Order: Political Legitimacy and the International
Community after the Cold War’
Lecture and Panelist for Washington Community College Master Teacher Institute Summer
2004: America’s Role in the World B Empire or Human Rights?, Seattle
Advocacy Service:
4/2005 Expert Witness on Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (Pro bono)
Case of Asylum and Deportation Withholding Petitions of K.M.A.
Affidavit for petitioner’s lawyer
& Testimony to Department of Homeland Security (New York Federal Plaza)
1-5/2002 Expert Witness on Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (Pro bono)
Case of Asylum and Protection under the Torture Conventions Petition s of Z.M.K.
Affidavit for Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (New York Office)
& Testimony to Immigration Court (Elisabeth, NJ Federal Detention Center)
Consultancies:
11/2011 Expert Witness on Gender Violence and Muslim Minorities in India
Case of Asylum and Deportation Withholding Petitions of L.T.
Affidavit for petitioner’s lawyer & Testimony to Immigration Court (Atlanta, GA)
7/2008 Expert Witness on Kashmiri Political Parties in Pakistan
Case of Asylum and Deportation Withholding Petitions of A.F.
Affidavit to Immigration Court (Chicago, IL)
2/2006 Expert Witness on Religious Minorities in Pakistan
Case of Asylum and Deportation Withholding Petitions of K.M.
Affidavit for petitioner’s lawyer & Testimony to Immigration Court (Seattle, WA)
11/3/2005 APreparations and Expectations for Disaster Relief Workers in Pakistan@
Presentation for CARE relief team at >Alaska Structures, Inc.=, Kirkland, WA
Public Lectures
5/13/09 “The Af-Pak Strategy and the ‘Pak Taliban’: Understanding the ‘Talibanization’ of Pakistan’s
NWFP and Swat”
Lecture for Public Panel w/ Tamim Ansary and Stephen Zunes ‘Afghanistan: Giving Peace a
Chance’ Sponsored by Abe Keller community Forum, Langston Huges Performing Arts Center,
Seattle, WA and aired on Seattle Public access TV
11/13/2007 Panelist and Discussion Facilitator “Pakistan’s New Crisis: the New Emergency Declaration
and Pakistan’s Future”
Community Forum organized by the Pakistan Association of Greater Seattle, the Pakistan

Students’ Association, and the UW South Asia Center
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5/11/2006 Introduction and Discussion Facilitator to film viewing of Final Solution; Genocide in Gujarat
Documentary film screening and discussion organized by Center for Study and Prevention of
Ethnic Conflict, UW
11/3/2005 “Understanding the South Asia Earthquake: Trajectories of Relief and the Challenges of
Reconstruction in the Disputed Territories of Kashmir”
Presentation for Seattle Community College, Seattle
1/26/2004 “The Kashmir Conflict and India-Pakistan Relations”
Lecture for the Sunset Club, Seattle, Washington
3/4/2002 “Democratization, Human Rights, Political Morality and Islamic Ideology in Kashmir”
Annual Minton Lecture, Cornell Alumnae Club, NYC
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
National and International Scholarly Service:
2012 Appointed Chairperson, Fellowship Awards Committee, AIPS
2012 Associate Researcher, Center for the Study of Conflicts, Catastrophes and Environmental
Change, State University of Campinas (Brazil)
2009-2012 Elected Member, Executive Committee, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
2006-2012 Appointed Trustee for UW, Board of Trustees, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
2007-2010 Elected Member, South Asia Council (SAC), Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
2010 Appointed Chairperson, Fellowship Awards Committee, AIPS
2009 Appointed Member, Fellowship Awards Committee, AIPS
2008 Appointed Member, Bylaws Revision Committee, AIPS
2008 Appointed Organizer, SAC-sponsored panel for AAS annual meeting 2008, AAS
2007 Appointed Member, Book Award Committee, AIPS
2007 Appointed Member, Fellowship Awards Committee, AIPS
2006 Appointed Member, Fellowship Review Committee USEF-PK and Fulbright Foundation,
Pakistan
Service to the Profession of Anthropology:
2012 Reviewer: Urban Anthropology
2011 Reviewer: American Ethnologist
2010 Reviewer: Comparative Studies of South Asia, African, and the Middle East
2006 Reviewer: Cultural Anthropology; Journal of Historical Sociology
2004 Reviewer: Cultural Anthropology; Prentice Hall Press
2002 Reviewer: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Service to Intellectual Communities/ Conference Organizational Work:
2009-2010 Panel on “Conspiracy, Paranoia, and the Apprehension of Politics in South Asia”
(Organized for the Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies 2010)
2007-2008 SAC Sponsored Double-Panel “South Asian Social Imaginaries: Globalized Modernities/
Regionalized Modernities”
(Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2008, Atlanta: April 3-6, 2008)

Co-Organizer with Bernard Bate (Yale U.)
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2005 International Symposium and Conference, ‘Islam, Asia, Modernity’
Academic Symposium, Public Lectures, Cultural Performance, and Pedagogy Workshop
(University of Washington, May 2005)
Co-Organizer with Steve Hansen (UW), Laurie Sears (UW), and K. Siviramakrishnan (UW)
2001 Panel “Marginal Peoples and Wandering Borders: The Integration of Autonomous Regions and
Unruly Spaces into the Pakistani State”
(30 th Annual South Asia Conference at UW, Madison: October 18-21, 2001)
Co-Organizer with Julie Flowerday (UNC)
Service to the University of Washington:
2011-2012
§ Carnegie Jr. Fellowships Selection Committee/ College of Arts & Sciences
§ Graduate Admissions Committee/ Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle East Studies
§ Graduate Student Performance Review Committee/ IPNME Studies
§ JSIS departmental representative to the NSF Biological Futures Ethnics Initiative
§ Curriculum Committee/ South Asian Studies Program, JSIS
§ Curriculum Committee/ Comparative Religions Program, JSIS
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2010-2011
§ Carnegie Jr. Fellowships Selection Committee/ College of Arts & Sciences
§ Curriculum Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
2008-2009
§ Jackson School Fellowship Awards Committee, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ International Studies Program, JSIS
2007-2008
§ Jackson School Fellowship Awards Committee, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ International Studies Program, JSIS
2006-2007
§ Search Committee, Faculty Hire in South Asia Political Science/ JSIS
§ Graduate Program Coordinator/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Graduate Admissions Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ International Studies Program, JSIS
§ Campus Interviewer, Fulbright Fellowships/ College of A&S
2005-2006
§ Chair, MA Program Curriculum Task Force/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Graduate Program Coordinator/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Title VI Proposal Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS

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§ Executive Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Executive Committee/ International Studies Program, JSIS
§ Webb Fellowship Committee/ Comparative Religion Program, JSIS
§ Colloquium Committee/ Comparative Religion Program, JSIS
§ Faculty Mentor for PLP Fellow from Pakistan/ Evans School of Public Affairs
2004-2005
§ Graduate Program Coordinator/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Graduate Admissions Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Title VI Proposal Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Curriculum Advisory Committee/ International Studies Program, JSIS
§ Webb Fellowship Committee/ Comparative Religion Program, JSIS
2003-2004
§ FLAS Committee/ South Asia Program, JSIS
§ Curriculum Development (Undergraduate Core/SISSA 200)/ South Asia Program, JSIS
Professional Memberships:
§ American Anthropological Association
o Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, AAA
o American Ethnological Association, AAA
o Association of Political and Legal Anthropology, AAA
o Cultural Anthropology, AAA
§ Association for Asian Studies
§ American Institute of Pakistan Studies
§ Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
§ Association for Middle East Studies