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Farina Mir

Associate Professor
Director, Center for South Asian Studies

1029 Tisch Hall

Office Location(s): 2757 Haven Hall
Office Hours: Th 2-4. By appointment only. Sign up at https://sitemaker.umich.edu/fmir/sign-up
Phone: 734.647.5416
fmir@umich.edu

  • Affiliation(s)
    • Center for South Asian Studies
    • Program in Anthropology and History
    • Islamic Studies Program
  • Fields of Study
    • Modern South Asia
    • Islam/Muslims in South Asia
    • British colonialism
  • About

    Selected Publications:

    The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)  
        *Winner of the 2012 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
        *Winner of the 2011 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association

    Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, ed. Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012)

     "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.

  • Education
    • Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002