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Farina Mir
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002
Other U of M Affiliation:
Center for South Asian Studies
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2528 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-5416
E-mail:
fmir@umich.edu
Office Hours:
T 2:30-4:30 by appointment: please sign up at https://sitemaker.umich.edu/fmir
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Field(s) of Study:
Colonial and postcolonial South Asia; Islam in South Asia; History of the British Empire; Nationalism; Language and Society
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Biography:
Farina Mir holds degrees in English and Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures from Barnard College (B.A., 1993) and in History from Columbia University (Ph.D., 2002). Trained as a historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, her research has focused on the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India. Her book, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (University of California Press, in press) is a study of the Punjabi language and its literature under colonialism (from 1849–1947), with a particular focus on qisse, or epic stories/romances. Mir has published in Comparative Studies in Society and History and the Indian Economic and Social History Review, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Program, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the Ford Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. She has also held a Mellon Postdoctoral fellowship.
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Selected Publications:
The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab. Berkeley: University of California Press (in press). (South Asia Across the Disciplines. Series editors: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sheldon Pollock, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam).
“Imperial Policy, Provincial Practices: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India.” Indian Economic and Social History Review 43.4 (December, 2006): 395-427.
"Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism." Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.3 (July, 2006): 727-758.
"South Asian Languages." Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Rev. of In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan, by Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar. Comparative Studies in Society and History 47.4 (2005): 895-896.
Rev. of Pakistan: Nationalism Without a Nation, ed. Christophe Jaffrelot. The Journal of Asian Studies 63.1 (February, 2004): 230-232.
"Partition Redux." Review essay of The Partition Omnibus, by David Page, Anita Inder Singh, G.D. Khosla, and Penderal Moon. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews (July, 2003).
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Asia&month=0307&week=a&msg=KZsJ2R5KFxFnH0TJbmsAEw&user=&pw=
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Current Projects:
I am currently working on a book-length study of Muslim socio-religious reform in late-colonial India, focusing on the role of Anjumans (voluntary associations) in producing modern, secular Islam.
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