CURRICULUM VITAE SUNAINA MAIRA Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Davis smaira@ucdavis.edu Education 1998 1994 1992 1991 Ed.D., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ed.M., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education. M.A. in Higher Education Administration and Student Development, Boston College School of Education. B.A., magna cum laude, English and American Literature (major) and Visual and Environmental Studies (minor: filmmaking), Harvard-Radcliffe College. Academic Positions and Affiliations 20102015-18 2005-11 2013-14 2012-13 2011-13 2003-10 1999-2003 1999-2002 1999 1998 1996-99 1996-97 Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California-Davis. Affiliated Faculty Member, Cultural Studies Graduate Group; Co-Director, Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies, UC Davis. Program Committee Member, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, UC Davis. Non-Resident International Scholar, Open Society Foundation’s International Higher Education Support Program, Social Science Division, Al-Quds Bard Honors College (Al Quds University), Abu Dis, Palestine. Visiting Scholar, Gender Studies Program, MADA Al-Carmel: Arab Centre for Applied Social Research. Haifa, Israel. Research Fellow, Muwatin: The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy. Ramallah, Palestine. Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California-Davis; Affiliated Faculty Member, Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in English and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Co-director of Certificate in Asian and Asian American Studies; University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Faculty Fellow, Crossroads Project for the Study of the Americas, Five Colleges. Visiting lecturer, New York University and Columbia University. Visiting lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Visiting Scholar, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, New York University: Visiting Fellow, Center for Urban Research, City University of New York. Awards 2011 2007-08 2004 2003 1997 1997 1996 Honorable Mention, Cultural Studies Book Award, Association of Asian American Studies. For Missing: Youth, Empire, and Citizenship After 9/11. UC Davis Faculty Development Award. Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumni of Color Achievement Award. Honorable Mention, Lara Romero First Book Publication Award, American Studies Association. For Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, for Contours of the heart: South Asians Map North America (co-edited with Rajini Srikanth). Advanced Doctoral Student Award, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Aloian Beal Award (for public service), Harvard University. Fellowships and Grants 2019-20 2017 2015-18 2012-13 2011-12 2012 2008-09 2006-07 2005-06 2002 2002 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship ($75,000) for publicly engaged research in partnership with the StoryCenter, Berkeley. UC Davis Humanities Institute Public Engagement Fellowship ($7500) for summer research on “Sanctuary, Solidarity, Resistance.” Mellon Research Initiative in the Humanities 3-year grant ($450,000) for “Comparative Border Studies: Rights, Containment, Protest” (co-director with Robert Irwin), to fund programming, graduate student recruitment, and faculty-student collaboration in transnational, comparative research. UC Center for New Racial Studies Mini Grant (co-PI with Natalia DeebSossa) for coordinating the UC Davis Race Project, a study of histories and experiences of race, racism, and racial justice movements at UC Davis and digital archive of the Third World Forum (https://twfe.ucdavis.edu/). Muwatin: The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy: Grant for study of Palestinian Youth Activism and Hip Hop in the West Bank. UC Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (Faculty Seminar on Surveillance and the Social). UC Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (Faculty Seminar on California Cultures). UC Davis Academic Senate Research Grant (mini-seed grant for research on youth activism and post-9/11 alliances in Silicon Valley). UC Davis Humanities Institute Fellow (Faculty Seminar on War). Russell Sage Foundation grant ($50,000) for research project, “South Asian Muslim Youth in Cambridge: Cultural Citizenship in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001.” Research Fellows Grant, Institute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2 Publications Books 2019 2017 2016 2014 2013 2009 2004 2003 2002 1997 Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, and Decoloniality (coedited with Paola Bacchetta and Howard Winant). Routledge (Spring 2018). Boycott! The Movement for the Academic Boycott of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press. In American Studies Now series, coedited by Lisa Duggan and Curtis Marez. The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror. New York: NYU Press. The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, co-edited with Piya Chatterjee. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement. Washington D.C.: Tadween Press. Missing: Youth, Empire, and Citizenship After 9/11. Durham: Duke University Press. Youthscapes: The Popular, The National, The Global. Co-edited with Elisabeth Soep. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (co-editor, nonfiction), edited by Evelina Galang. Minneapolis: Coffeehouse Press. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, co-edited with Rajini Srikanth. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop (Distributed by Rutgers University Press). Journal Articles 2019 2019 2012 2012 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009 2008 Forum editor: “Protesting, Refusing, and Resisting Borders: A Transnational Perspective.” Author, “Introduction.” American Quarterly 71(4): 1021-1028. “Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Return: A Transnational Roundtable on Sanctuary Activism.” Radical History Review 135, special issue on sanctuary co-edited by Naomi Paik, Jason Ruiz, and Rebecca Schreiber, 138-159. “Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent” (co-authored with Magid Shihade). Social Text 112 30(3): 1-26. “Dispatches from Pepper-Spray University: Privatization, Repression, and Revolts” (co-authored with Julie Sze). American Quarterly 64(2): 315-330 (June). “Forum: On 9/11 as Rupture” (Roundtable dialogue). Asian American Literary Review 2(1.5), Special Issue: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, 49-68. “Citizenship and Dissent: South Asian Muslim Youth in the U.S. After 9/11.” South Asian Popular Culture 8(1): 31-45 (April). "Palestinian Hip Hop: Youth, Identity, and the Nation" (co-authored with Magid Shihade). ORIENT, 3: 26-35. “‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Muslim Citizens: Feminists, Terrorists, and U.S. Orientalisms,” Feminist Studies 35(3): 631-656. “Migrant and Minority Youth in the U.S.: Rights, Belonging, and Exclusion.” European Journal of Child and Youth Research 4(12): 116-121. “‘We Ain’t Missing’: Palestinian Hip Hop—A Transnational Youth Movement,” The New Centennial Review 8(2): 161-192. 3 2008 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2004 2003 2003 2002 2001 2000 2000 2000 1999 1998 “Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire: South Asian Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 America.” American Quarterly 60(3): 697-720 (September). “Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire.” American Quarterly 60(2): 317-345 (June). “Deporting Radicals, Deporting La Migra: The Hayat Case in Lodi.” Cultural Dynamics 19(1): 39-66. “Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies,” co-authored with Magid Shihade, and “Guest Editor’s Preface.” Journal of Asian American Studies 9(2): ix-xiii, 117-140, special issued edited by myself. “Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship.” Amerasia Journal 31:3: 1-27. Co-authored with Louise Cainkar. “Youth Culture, Empire and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States After September 11.” In Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 24(1): 219-231, special issue edited by Louise Cainkar. “United States of Adolescence? Reconsidering U.S. Youth Culture Studies.” Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research 12(3): 245-269. Co-authored with Elisabeth Soep. “Trance-Global-Nation: Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Citizenship in Youth Culture.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15(1): 3-33. “Citizenship in a Time of War: South Asian Muslim Youth in Cambridge after 9/11.” Subcontinental Journal 1(1): 41-52. Spring, 2003. “Temporary Tattoos: Indo-Chic Fantasies and Late Capitalist Orientalism.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 3(1): 134-160. “B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture.” Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 3(3): 65-86. “Henna and Hip Hop: The Politics of Cultural Production and The Work of Cultural Studies.” Journal of Asian American Studies, 3(3): 329-369. “De-privileging Positions: Indian Americans, South Asian Americans, and the Politics of Asian American Studies.” (Co-author). Journal of Asian American Studies, 3(1): 67-100. February. “Ideologies of Authenticity: Youth, Nationalism, and Diaspora.” Amerasia Journal— Satyagraha in America: The Political Culture of South Asian Americans, 25(3): 139-149, special issue edited by Vijay Prashad and Biju Mathew. "Identity Dub: The Paradoxes of an Indian American Youth Subculture (New York Mix)." Cultural Anthropology, 14(1): 29-60. Spring. "Desis Reprazent: Bhangra Remix and Hip Hop in New York City." Post-Colonial Studies, 1(3): 357-370, special issue edited by John Hutnyk and Virinder Kalra. Fall. Book Chapters 2019 2019 “Muslim American Youth and Post-9/11 Islamophobia: Interfaith Activism and the Limits of Religious Multiculturalism.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, edited by Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, 252-262. Oxon, UK and New York, NY: Routledge. “Coming of Age under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism.” In Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression, edited by Aziz Choudry, 79-96. London: Pluto Press. 4 2018 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 2014 2014 2013 2012 2012 2012 “Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror.” In Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, edited by Carole McGranahan and John F. Collins, 391-410. Durham: Duke University Press. “”Uncivil’ Activism: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth Politics After 9/11.” In Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism: Schooling a “Suspect Community,” edited by Máirtín Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood, 99-113. London: Palgrave Macmillan. “’Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo.” In Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean, edited by Mark M. Ayyash and Ratiba HadjMoussa, 171-197. Leiden and Boston: Brill. “South Asian America: Histories, Cultures, Politics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, edited by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma (pp. 50-69). New York: Oxford University Press. “’Racial Profiling’ in the War on Terror: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States.” In Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, 3rd edition, edited by Min Zhou and Anthony Ocampo (pp. 444-463). New York: NYU Press. “Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror.” In The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror, edited by David Kieran (pp. 60-82). New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press. “Youth.” In Keywords for American Studies (2nd edition), edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler (pp. 245-248). New York and London: NYU Press. “Surveillance Effects: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth in the War on Terror.” In At the Limits of Justice: Women of Color on Terror, edited by Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack (pp. 86-106). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. “Dissenting Citizenship: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11.” In Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media, edited by David Buckingham, Sara Bragg, and Mary J. Kehily (pp. 104-118). Houndsmill, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. “’A Strip, A Land, A Blaze’: Arab American Hip-Hop and Transnational Politics.” In Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, edited by Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat (pp. 195-213). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. “Gender, terror, and counter-terrorism: Muslim American Youth Activism and Disappeared Rights.” In Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives, edited by Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Jayne C. Huckerby (pp. 60-81). London and New York: Routledge. “Migrant and Minority Youth in the U.S.: Rights, Belonging, and Exclusion.” In Youth Policy in a Changing World: From Theory to Practice, edited by Marina Hahn-Bleibtreu and Marc Molgat (pp. 159-172). Opladen, Germany: Barbara Budrich. “Islamophobia and Dissent: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States.” In From the Far Right to the Mainstream: Islamophobia in Party Politics and the Media, edited by Humayun Ansari and Farid Hafez (pp. 112-129). Frankfurt, Germany: Campus Verlag. 5 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2009 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2006 2006 2005 "South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States." In Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education, edited by James A. Banks. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE (pp. 2041-46). Also in SAGE Reference Online. Web. 20 Jul. 2012. “Everyday Exceptions: Geographies of Social Imaginaries.” In Keywords in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges, edited by Nancy Lesko and Susan Talburt (pp. 235-247). New York: Routledge. “Islamophobia and the War on Terror: Youth, Citizenship, and Dissent.” In Islamophobia: The Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century, edited by John L. Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin (pp. 109-125). New York: Oxford University Press. “Youth Culture and Youth Movements: United States of America.” In Encylopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, general editor: Suad Joseph. Brill Online. “Desis in and out of the House: South Asian Youth Culture in the United States Before and After 9/11.” In Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States, edited by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (pp. 89-108). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. “Radical Deportation: Alien Tales from Lodi and San Francisco.” In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, edited by Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz (pp. 295-325). Durham: Duke University Press. “Citizenship and Dissent in Diaspora: Indian Immigrant Youth in the U.S. After 9/11.” In Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations, edited by Brij Maharaj, K. Laxmi Narayan, Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, and Dave Sangha (pp. 131-155). Sage/Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. “Citizenship, Dissent, Empire: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After September 11.” In Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since September 11 (pp. 15-46), edited by Katherine Ewing. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. “B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture.” In Desi Rap: Hip-Hop and South Asian America, edited by Ajay Nair and Murali Balaji (pp. 41-70). Lanham, MD: Lexington. “Racial Profiling in the War on Terror: Cultural Citizenship and South Asian Muslim Youth in the U.S.” In Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, edited by Min Zhou and James Gatewood (pp. 431-448). New York: New York University Press. “Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture.” In Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited by Mimi T. Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (pp. 221-243). Durham: Duke University Press. “Desis in the Hood: Indian American Youth Culture in New York.” In Blacks and Asians: Crossings, Conflict and Commonality, edited by Hazel M. Mcferson (pp. 235-264). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. “East Indian Youth Culture in New York City.” In The East Indians, edited by Adriane Ruggiero (pp. 177-121). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press (Thomson Gale). “Cool Nostalgia: Indian American Youth Culture and the Politics of Authenticity.” In Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and Global 6 2005 2005 2005 2003 1999 Connections, edited by Helena Helve and Gunilla Holm (pp. 197-208). UK: Ashgate. “Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture.” In Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas, edited by Wanni Anderson and Robert Lee (pp. 227-247). Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. “Trance-formations: Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism in Youth Culture.” In East Main Street: Asian American Popular Cultures, edited by LeiLani Nishime, Shilpa Davé, and Tasha Oren (pp. 13-31). New York: New York University Press. “Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization.” In New Directions for Asian American Studies, edited by Kent Ono (pp. 144-165). Oxford, England and Malden, MA: Blackwell. “Imperial Feelings: Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization.” In Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millenium, edited by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, and Desiree Qin-Hilliard (pp. 203-234). Berkeley: University of California Press and Ross Institute. "The Politics of "Cool": Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. In Encounters : People of Asian Descent in the Americas, edited by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, with Rajini Srikanth and Lenny Strobel (pp. 177-193). Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield. Book reviews 2009 2005 2004 2004 2003 2003 2001 2001 1999 1998 Review of American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora, by Sunil Bhatia. South Asian Diaspora 1(2): 195-197. Review essay (with Amaney Jamal),“Muslim Americans, Islam, and the “War on Terrorism” at Home and Abroad.” The Middle East Journal 59(2): 303-309. Review of Namaste Sharon: Hindutva and Sharonism Under U.S. Hegemony, by Vijay Prashad. Arab Studies Quarterly 26(4): 67-70. Review of South Asian Women in the Diaspora, by Nirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram. Feminist Review 78: 191-193. Review of Becoming American: Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities, by Nazli Kibria. Journal of Asian American Studies 6(3): 332-335. Review of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity, by Keya Ganguly. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 23(1&2): 349-351. Review of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America, by David Eng. Amerasia Journal 27(2): 193-197. “Cartographies of Desire: South Asian Canadian and South Asian American Fiction.” Review essay, International Journal of Canadian Studies 24: 227-234. Review of Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora, by Aparna Rayaprol. The Journal of Asian Studies, 1182-1183. Review of Diasporas, displacements, and geographies of identity, edited by Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg. American Anthropologist 100(1). March. Other Academic Publications 7 2019 2014 2013 2012 1996 1995 1993 “New Texts Out Now - Boycott! The Movement for the Academic Boycott of Israel.” Jadaliyya, September 3. “New Texts Out Now – The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent.” Jadaliyya, May 14. “New Texts Out Now - Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement.” Jadaliyya, December 19. “Unsettling Exceptionalisms,” Periscope dossier on Palestine, Social Text. July. http://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_topic/palestine/. Another Safe Haven. (Contributing author). Cambridge, Mass.: Project Co-Arts, Harvard Project Zero. "Making Room for a Hybrid Space: Reconsidering Second-Generation Identity." Sanskriti, 6(1): 6. Safe Havens. (Contributing author). Cambridge, Mass.: Project Co-Arts, Harvard Project Zero. Fiction 1999 1998 1998 1998 1995 "Liquid Seasons." In The Nuyorasian Anthology, edited by Bino Realuyo. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop. "Liquid Seasons." In Our Mother's Ashes, Part II: More Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the U.S., edited by Nurjehan Aziz. Toronto: Toronto South Asia Review Publications. "Imagining Mango." India Currents, 11(1). February. "Leaving Lowell." Asian Pacific American Journal (edited by David Mura). Fall/Winter. "Geography." Journal of the Asian American Renaissance—Sticky Rice: The Power of Community. December. Presentations Invited Talks (Selected) 2019 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017 “The Right to Host: Hospitality, Sanctuary, and Solidarity Activism.” Workshop on Opening Communities to Newcomers, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. June. “Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine.” Palestine Center, Washington D.C. March. “The 9/11 Generation.” Youth, Activism, and Community SymposiumOntario Institute for Studies of Education, U of Toronto, Toronto. April. Plenary panel on “Urgent Solidarities,” Association of Asian American Studies annual conference, San Francisco. March. “Boycott!: Palestinian Freedom, Academic Activism, and Campus Repression.” Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program, UC Santa Cruz. March. “Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine.” KPFA/Pacifica Radio Public Lecture Series, Berkeley. March. “American Studies Now: Roundtable with Authors.” American Studies Association national conference, November. Chicago. 8 2017 2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 “The 9/11 Generation: Authors Meet Critics.” Cultural Studies Association annual conference, Washington, D.C. May. “More Delicate than a Flower, Yet Harder than a Rock: Youth Activism and Humanitarian War.” Asian American Studies Speaker Series. Washington University, St. Loius. October. “Decolonizing the Settler University: Critical Ethnic Studies and Transnational Solidarity.” Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Speaker Series. UC Merced. September. Plenary panel, “Forging Solidarity: Taking a Stand on Palestine.” Annual Conference of American Association of Geographers. San Franscisco. April. “Inside/Outside: Decolonizing the Settler University.” Lecture for Ray Smith Symposium on The Future of Graduate Education in the Humanities. Workshop on The Imperial University for Democratizing Knowledge Collective. Syracuse University. March. "Youth, Activism, and Arts: Cultures of Protest/Protesting Culture." Keynote talk, ReOrient Theatre Festival and Forum Exploring the Middle East, Golden Thread Productions. October. "The Imperial University: Fugitive Scholars and Academic Solidarity," Lecture for Proseminar on the Academy and Polity. Simon’s Rock College at Bard. September. “The University in Theory: The Future of (Fugitive) Study.” Opening Plenary, Cultural Studies Association annual conference. Riverside. May. “More Delicate than a Flower: Youth Activism and Human Rights.” Center for South Asia, Stanford University. October. “The Palestinian Youth Movement and New Protest Cultures: Hungry 4 Freedom.” Symposium: Undisciplining Feminism, San Francisco State University. October. “Palestinian Graffiti Art and the Youth Movement,” Unfixed Itineraries: Symposium on Film and Visual Cultures from Arab Worlds, UC Santa Cruz. October. Antiracism, Inc., Workshop cosponsored by American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (UCSB) and UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara. October. "Jil [Generation] Oslo: Youth, Culture, and Politics." Gender Studies Program, MADA Al-Carmel: Arab Centre for Applied Social Research, Haifa, Israel. February. “More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of Empire.” Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Speaker Series, UC Santa Cruz. November. “Terrorizing Subjects: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth Activism After 9/11.” Workshop: Narrating Terror Across Borders, University of Toronto, Canada. May. “Hip-Hop from 1948 Palestine: Youth, Identity, and Nation” (with Magid Shihade). Symposium: Exploring Song and Music Among Palestinians, Jericho, Palestine. January. "Youth Politics in a Post-9/11 USA: Solidarity, Surveillance, and Sovereignty." Muwatin: The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, Ramallah, Palestine. December. 9 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 “Gender, Terror, and Counter-Terrorism: Muslim American Youth and Disappeared Rights.” Workshop: Gender, National Security, and CounterTerrorism: Human Rights Perspectives, NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. September. “Youth and Politics in the War on Terror: Activism, Alliances, and Counterpublics.” Keynote talk, 11thNordic Youth Research International Symposium) University of Turku, Finland. June. “Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror,” Seminar: Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, Wenner-Gren Foundation/Columbia University, New York. April. “Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11.” Asian American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin. November. “’Good’ and ‘Bad” Muslims: Feminists, Terrorist, and U.S. Orientalisms.” Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University. November. “Missing: Youth and Empire in the War on Terror.” Graduate Colloquium and Public Talk: Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Rice University, Houston. October. Forum: Love and Terror. Anthropology Department, UC Irvine. October. “Citizenship and Dissent: South Asian Muslim Youth in the U.S. After 9/11.” Seminar: Rethinking Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London, UK. November. “Missing: South Asian Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 USA.” Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. October. “The Enigma of ‘Racial Profiling’ of Muslim and Arab Americans.” Keynote Speaker, Conference on Global Islam in Everyday America (Asian American Studies, Middle East Center, and South Asia Center), University of Pennsylvania. April. “Missing: Muslim Immigrant Youth, Citizenship, and Empire.” Talk in lecture series: Global Islam in Everyday America, University of Pennsylvania. April. “The Enigma of ‘Racial Profiling’ of Muslim and Arab Americans.” Symposium-The Empire Within: The Racialization of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians in the United States, UC Center for New Racial Studies, UC Santa Barbara. February. “Issues of Civic Participation, National Identity, and Political Development in Shaping Youth Policy.” International Council on National Youth Policy and Qatar Department of Youth Affairs, Doha, Qatar. November. “Missing: Muslim Youth, Dissenting Citizenship, and U.S. Empire.” Asian American Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September. “‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Muslim Citizens: Feminists, Terrorists, and U.S. Orientalisms,” Conference--Gender of “Terror,” Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles. May. “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Youth, Terrorists, Feminists,” Women’s Studies, Fresno State University. April. “Good and Bad Muslims: Youth, Citizenship and Dissent in U.S. Empire,” Conference – Deconstructing Islamophobia: Immigration, Globalization and Constructing the Other, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. April. 10 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004 2004 “The History of Asian Pacific American Studies and the Potential for the Future,” Plenary panel, Asian Pacific American National Graduate Conference, University of California, Berkeley. April. “Dissent and Empire: South Asian Muslim Youth in the War on Terror,” Lecture Series for South Asian Association, Harvard University. April. “Cultural Citizenship and the War on Terror: South Asian Muslim Youth in a U.S. High School.” Raising Our Voices: (Re)Framing Conversations about Race and Education, Annual Alumni of Color Conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education. February. "Good" and "Bad" Muslims: Citizenship, Orientalism, and War in Post-9/11 America,” Colloquium in Asian and Asian American Studies, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. January. Keynote Speaker, South Asian Awareness Network Annual Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. January. “South Asian Immigrant Youth and U.S. Empire: Citizenship and Dissent.” Keynote lecture, Spencer Symposium on Immigration and Education, University of California, Los Angeles. May. “Youthscapes: South Asian Muslims and Cultural Citizenship after 9/11.” Collective for Asian American Scholarship and Anthropology, Rutgers University. April. "Good" and "Bad" Muslims: Citizenship, Orientalism and Dissent in Post9/11 America,” Symposium – “Between the 'Good,' the 'Bad,' and the 'Evil': Post-9/11 Discourses of Citizenship, Orientalism, and Women's 'Liberation,” Townsend Center Working Group on Muslim Identities & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, March. “The Role of the Arts in the United States’ Immigrant Communities.” Symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University. June. “Desis and the War on Terror: Citizenship and Empire.” Keynote speech for conference, Investigating Indianness: Transformations of Identity in Local and Global Cultures. Annual meeting of Association for Research on Asian Indian Communities, Connecticut College. April. “South Asians and Arab Americans: Empire, War, and Solidarity.” South Asian, Middle Eastern Cultural Awareness Organization, Mills College. April. “Desis in the Imperial State.” Annual Lecture Series on South Asia, sponsored by the South Asian Students’ Association, Brown University. March. “Art, Activism, and Social Movements.” Talk sponsored by Asian American Student Union, Scripps College. January. “Translating Empire: Youth and Citizenship after 9/11.” Paper presented at conference, Translating Empire to Itself, Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine. May. “Archives, Subcultures, and the Arts.” Guest lecture for “Archives and Subcultures” (Prof. David Román), American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California. September. “Youth in the Age of Development.” Presentation at workshop hosted by 11 2004 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development), the Social Science Research Council, and the Federal University of Bahia. Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. June. “Intimate and Imperial Feelings: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11.” Paper presented at symposium, “U.S. Wars in Asia,” University of California, San Diego. May. “Asian American Youth Culture and Politics in a Moment of Empire.” Keynote speaker, Asian American Student Annual Banquet. Cornell University. April. “Youth culture studies, empire and globalization.” Presentation at symposium, “Globalization and Education: Scholarly and Journalistic Perspectives.” Harvard Graduate School of Education and Neiman Foundation, Harvard University. February. “Citizenship, Siege, and Imperial Feelings: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11.” Center for Asian and American Studies, Duke University. September. “Imperial feelings: South Asian Muslim Youth in Cambridge After 9/11.” Desis in the House: South Asian Diasporas Symposium, Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge. April. “Imperial feelings: Youth culture, citizenship, and globalization.” English Department and Program in Race, Culture, and Power. University of New Hampshire, Durham. March. “South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth and Cultural Citizenship.” Symposium on Islam and Muslims in the Europe and U.S. After September 11. Social Science Research Council, New York. April. “Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization.” New Directions in Asian American Studies symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February. “Shifting Questions and Ethno-Global Influences: Reflections on Cultural Studies and Youth Research as a Field of Knowledge.” Keynote address at Symposium on Youth Studies, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), Stockholm, Sweden. January. “Who Is the Enemy? South Asian Muslim Youth After 9/11.” South Asian Student Association, Boston College. December. “From New York to the ‘Happy Valley’”: Globalizing Asian/American Youth Cultures.” Symposium on “Asian Cities/Global Cultures,” Emerson College. November. “Youth Cultures and Globalization.” Harvard-Ross Seminar on Education for Globalization, Harvard University. November. “South Asians in the House! Youth Culture and Citizenship.” Asian American Center and “Transnationalism and Identity” Program Series, Tufts University. November. “South Asian American Youth Culture.” Panel sponsored by South Asian Students’ Alliance, Northwestern University. October. “Desis in the House: South Asian American Youth Before and After 9/11.” South Asian Society and Calhoun College, Yale University. October. 12 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001 2001 2001 2001 2000 2000 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 “Unveiling Citizens: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth in the Aftermath of 9/11.” Rethinking South Asia: Feminist Interventions, symposium at University of California, Santa Cruz. May. “Asian American Youth and Race Politics After 9/11.” Keynote address for convocation, Asian American Awareness Month, Williams College. April. “Second-Generation Asian American Youth and Urban Youth Culture.” Talk for Asian American History Month, University of Illinois, Chicago. March. “South Asian Immigrant Youth and Citizenship After 9/11.” Symposium on Ethnic Violence in South Asia and South Asian America, Harvard University. March. “El Mixterminator and Synthetic Sadhus: Race, Nation, and Globalization”: Panel with Prof. Randall Knoper. Dialogues in Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, UMass, Amherst. November. “Temporary Tattoos: Late Orientalism in the New Indo-Chic.” In the Eye of Culture Conference, Pennsylvania State University. April. “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Studies.” Graduate Colloquium on Methods in Women’s Studies, UMass, Amherst. February. “The Promise and Peril of South Asian Americanness: Literature, Activism, and Youth Culture.” Panel with Prof. Rajini Srikanth. Yale University. February. “Temporary Tattoos and Bhangra Beats: Asian American Youth Culture in New York and Northampton.” In “Women of Color: Defining the Issues,” Smith College. September. “The Reinvention of Bhangra in Youth Culture.” Invited speaker, “From Roots to Shoots: The Evolution of Bhangra in the U.S.” Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Washington, D.C. May. “Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture.” Invited speaker, “Diasporas and Displacements: A Symposium on Research and Teaching the Asian Diasporas.” Brown University. April. “Re-Fashioning Youth Culture Studies: Indo-chic, Immigration, and the New Orientalism.” Plenary speaker. “Desis Reprazent: Bhangra Remix, Hip Hop, and Hybridity Talk.” FreeZone: Symposium on Asian/Pacific/American Youth Culture, New York University. April. “Chaste Identities: Second-Generation Indian Americans in New York City.” Invited speaker, Anthropology Colloquium, University of California, Irvine. February. “Identity Dub: Second-Generation Indian American Youth Culture in New York City.” Southern Asia Institute Brown Bag Lecture Series, Columbia University. January. “Chaste Identities: The Ethnicization of the New Second Generation.” Paper presented at invited session: “Stranger Anxieties: Immigration and Population in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia. December. 13 Papers Presented (Selected) 2019 2017 2017 2015 2015 2014 2013 2012 2012 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 “The Academic Boycott Movement in the US.” British Society for Middle East Studies annual meeting, Leeds, UK. June. “Academic Repression and Solidarities: Policing (and Resisting) the Neoliberal University.” Constitution Day Conference, San Francisco State University. September. “Generation Oslo Rises Up: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Transnational Solidarity.” British Society for Middle East Studies annual meeting, Edinburgh, UK. July. Roundtable: “After the Misery: What are Critical University Studies For?” American Studies Association annual conference, Toronto. November. “#Un-Occupy: Palestinian Universities and the Palestinian Youth Movement.” Panel on Globalizing Critical University Studies. American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle. March. “Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American Youth in the War on Terror.” Conference of the Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. January. “The ‘New Civil Rights’ Movement: Dissenting Coalitions, Failed Alliances, and Muslim American Youth Activism.” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. November. “South and West Asian Youth Politics After 9/11: Solidarity, Repression, and Resistance.” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. November. “Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent” (co-authored with Magid Shihade). Association of Asian American Studies, Washington, D.C. April. “Asian/Arab Americas: Alliances, Movements, and Borders,” Critical Ethnic Studies Association, UC Riverside. March. “Palestinian Hip Hop: Youth, Identity, and Nation” (co-presented with Magid Shihade). Conference on Arab Popular Culture and the Media, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. April. “The War on Terror.” Conference on Pakistan and India: Shifting identities in culture, history and justice. Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. April. “Palestinian Hip Hop: The Present Absentee.” Co-presented with Dr. Magid Shihade. Symposium of Palestinian Music Research Project, Co-sponsored by Birzeit University (West Bank) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Jerash, Jordan. February. “Missing: Empire, Resistance, and the Academy.” Chair and participant, roundtable. Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu. April. “Arab American Youth in Silicon Valley: Gender and Politics in the Post-9/11 Era.” Conference on Arab-American Women, Kansas State University. March. “Deporting Radicals, Deporting La Migra: The Hayat Case in Lodi.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Fransisco. November. “Arab American Youth in Silicon Valley: The Politics of Community and Coalition.” Arab American History Conference, Dearborn, Michigan. November. 14 2008 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2002 2001 2000 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 ‘"Good" and "Bad" Muslim Citizens: Feminists, Terrorists, and US Orientalism After 9/11,’ American Studies Association, Alburqueque, New Mexico. October. Roundtable on “Orientalism, Racialization, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Middle East Studies,” Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada. “Palestine Movements in the U.S.: Dispersal, Repression, and Solidarity,” Panel on “Palestine in the U.S. Public Sphere,” American Studies Association, Philadelphia. October. “By Any Means Necessary: War, Resistance, and Repression.” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, New York. April. “Ethnography in The War on Terror: Intimacy and the Imperial State.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison. October. “Asian American Studies and U.S. Empire: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Roundtable organizer and presenter, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta. March. “Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies: Thinking Race, Empire, and Zionism in the U.S.” Paper presentation and chair of plenary, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. April. “A Moment of Empire: Doing Asian American Studies in the Metropole.” Paper and presentation at roundtable, “Asian American Studies at UC Davis.” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Boston. April. “Citizens in a Time of War: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11.” Panel chair, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco. May. “Citizens in a Time of War: South Asian Immigrant Youth in Cambridge.” Annual Meeting of American Studies Association, Houston. November. “Unveiling Citizens: South Asian Muslim Youth After 9/11.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. November. “Tabla, Trance, and Youth Culture: Gender and Nation in the New Orientalism.” At panel, “Recombinant Identities, New Counterpublics,” organized for Annual Meeting of American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. November. “Beyond Skin”: Remix Youth Culture and the Politics of Desi Hip Hop.” 29th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison. October. “Karmic Style: The Politics of Indo-Chic and Late Capitalist Orientalism.”“Ethno-Dub and the Politics of Youth Culture: Indian Remix Music and ‘Hybridity-Talk.’” Rethinking Marxism Conference, UMass, Amherst. September. “Body Marks: The Politics of Indo-Chic and the Work of Asian American Studies.” Association of Asian American Studies: Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ. May. “South Asian American Youth Politics: Activities in Search of an Ideology.” “From Margins to Mainstreams: South Asian Americans in Asian American Studies” (roundtable speaker). Association of Asian American Studies: Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. April. “Indian American Youth and Popular Culture in New York City.” 14th Annual South Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley. February. “Identity Dub: The Paradoxes of an Indian American Youth Subculture 15 1998 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 1996 1996 1996 1996 1995 1995 1995 1995 1993 (New York Mix)." Public Displays of Asian-ness: Conference on Asian American Popular Culture. Asian/Pacific/American Studies program, New York University. November. "Ethnic Yearnings: Second-Generation Indian Americans in New York City." Chair of panel, "'Desis Represent': Contests of Gender, Style, and Nation in Diasporic South Asian Youth Cultures." 27th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Madison, Wisconsin. October. "Variations on transnationalism: Preliminary lessons from Gujarati immigrant experiences in Massachusetts." (Co-authored with Dr. Peggy Levitt, Harvard University). Invited symposium on Globalization and South Asia, 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Madison, Wisconsin. October. "From Gujarat, India to Lowell, Massachusetts: Localized transnational Hinduism." (Co-authored with Dr. Peggy Levitt and Teena Purohit, Harvard University). American Sociological Association: Annual meeting, Association for Sociology of Religion, Toronto. August. "Indians Representin' and Remixing: Second-Generation Identity and Youth Culture in the South Asian Diaspora." Association for Asian American Studies: Annual meeting, Seattle. April. "Redefining the Contours of Asian American Literature." Panel chair and presenter. Asians in America Conference: New York University. March. "The Politics of Nostalgia: Cultural Production in the Second Generation." 9th Annual South Asian Students' Alliance Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. February. "Second-Generation Identity." National Federation of Indian Americans: Youth forum/annual convention, Washington, D.C. Panelist and workshop facilitator. September. "The Politics of South Asian American Identity." Association of Asian American Studies: Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. May. "Ethnic identity development of second-generation Indian American adolescents." American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York. April. "Race politics in the second generation." 8th Annual South Asian Students' Alliance Conference: Annual Meeting, Brown University. March. "Ethnicity and school experience in the United States." Culture, Psychology, and Education – New Insights from Current Research: Faculty conference. Harvard Graduate School of Education. January. "Second-generation identity politics in the South Asian diaspora." 24th Annual Conference on South Asia: University of Madison, Wisconsin. October. "Second-Generation Indian Americans." National Indian American Conference: Montclair State University, New Jersey. September. "Ethnic Identity of Second-Generation Indian American Adolescents." Boston Area Cultural Psychology Forum: Biennial conference, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Chair of panel, "Racial and Ethnic Identity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives." Conference steering committee member. May. "Reconceptualizing Retention: Issues of Culture for Women of Color" (co-authored with Dr. Karen Arnold, Assistant Professor of Education, Boston College). National Association of Women in Education: Annual Conference, Seattle. March. 16 Teaching 2003- 1999-2002 Spring ’99 Spring ’99 Fall ’98 Spring ’98 “Introduction to Asian American Cultural Studies,” “Historical Experiences of Asian Americans,” “Asian American Youth,” “Asian American Popular Culture,” “Asian American Communities,” “Asian American Activism and Social Movements,” “South Asian American Histories, Cultures, Politics,” “Asian American, Arab American, and Latina Feminisms,” and “Asian/Arab American Studies Intersections: Youth, Citizenship, Globalization” (undergraduate courses). Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. “Theories in Cultural Studies,” “Cultural Studies Methods,” “U.S. Empire: Citizenship, War, and 9/11,” “Human Rights and Protest,” and “Critical Ethnography, Youth and Community Studies” (graduate courses). Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis. “Youth Cultures,” “Introduction to Asian American Studies,” “Sexing the Diaspora: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnationalism,” and “Bridging Asia and Asian America” (undergraduate courses). University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Writing Culture, Reading Ethnography,” “Documenting Asian America,” and “The Politics of Cultural Production: Race, Nation, and Globalization” (graduate seminars). University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Rethinking the Americas,” team-taught course, Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Re-Mapping South Asian America” (undergraduate course). Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University. “Asian American Youth Cultures” (undergraduate course). Asian American Studies, Columbia University. "Social and Moral Development: Classic and Critical perspectives" (graduate course). Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education. "Asians in America: Identities, Communities, Cultures" (undergraduate course). Cotaught with Dr. Meg McLagan. Anthropology/Asian Studies, Barnard College. Advising and Mentorship 2018-20 2018-19 2014-16 2015-17 2015-17 20032004- UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship mentor for Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh. Mentor for Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow from India, Aparna Malaviya. UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship mentor for Manijeh Moradian. UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship mentor for Maryam Griffin. Mentor for Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies, Maurice Stierl. Thesis advisor and internship supervisor for several undergraduate students in Asian American Studies, Middle East/South Asia studies, Psychology, and Community Development. Dissertation advisor, committee member, qualifying exam reviewer, and independent study advisor for several doctoral students in Cultural Studies, Sociology, Education, English, and Ethnomusicology. 17 Research 6/179/11-6/13 6/07-9/11 9/9-5/10 7/01-7/03 1/00-8/00 1996-97 6/96–10/97 9/92–8/93 9/91–5/92 6/91-8/91 Community-engaged research on sanctuary movements and migrant solidarity activism in the US and Europe. Ethnographic study of Palestinian hip hop and the Palestinian youth movement in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Israel. Comparative ethnographic study of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American college-age youth and post-9/11 political mobilization and coalition-building in Silicon Valley and Fremont-Hayward, California. Field work on Pakistani youth, political activism, and the democracy movement in Lahore, Pakistan. Ethnographic study of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth in New England and issues of cultural citizenship after 9/11. Pilot research project on Cambodian American youth in Amherst, Mass. Interviews conducted by research assistant, focusing on issues of racialization, gender issues, work, and youth culture. Dissertation research: "Chaste Identities, Ethnic Yearnings: Second-Generation Indian Americans in New York City." Field work in New York City based on ethnographic research and thirty-five interviews with second-generation Indian American college students at Columbia University, New York University, Hunter College, and Pace University. Research assistant, Harvard University, Sociology Department. Working with Dr. Peggy Levitt on research project investigating the transnational ties and social remittances of immigrant groups in the Boston area. Conducted ethnographic study of Indian community and ethnic organizations, interviews with community leaders and youth, researched historical context. Currently analyzing findings and coauthoring papers. Research assistant, Project Co-Arts, Harvard Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Assisted project director in national study of community art centers that focus on education and serve multi-ethnic, economically disadvantaged populations. Visited centers across the country; interviewed students, staff, and administrators; wrote "portraits" of centers. Developed tool for self-assessment of educational effectiveness. Research assistant, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, Boston College. Research intern, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College. University Service/Program-Building 2015-2018 2013-15 2012-13 2010-11 Co-Director, Mellon Research Initiative in “Comparative Border Studies: Rights, Containment, Protest” (with Robert Irwin). Faculty representative of Hart Hall interdisciplinary programs, Advisory Committee to the Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies. Co-coordinator, UC Davis Race Project. Organized exhibit of archival materials from Third World Newsletter and panel of faculty and students on “Race, Justice, Protest: Histories of Activism at UC Davis.” Member, Davis Humanities Institute Advisory Board. 18 2010-12 Spring 2007 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Winter 2007Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2005 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2003 Fall 2003 - 2005-06 2004-05 Fall 1999Spring 2003 Fall 2001 2000-03 Spring 2000 2000-03 1999-03 1999-03 Member, Cultural Studies Program Executive Committee. Doctoral Student Advisor, Cultural Studies. Co-coordinator, Davis Humanities Institute Research Cluster on “Engaged Scholarship.” Organized symposium on the “The Imperial University/Neoliberal Academy,” seminars for faculty and graduate students. Lecture for “Doing/Debating Development” Speaker Series, Community Development Graduate Group, UC Davis. Member, Planning Group for graduate program in Comparative Race/Ethnic Studies, UC Davis. Co-coordinator, Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) Research Cluster on “Cultural resistance in the global South.” Organized artist talk by Walid Ra’ad; hosted seminars for faculty and graduate students. Organizer, Panel on Arab and Muslim Immigrant Communities in the War on Terror, Campus Book Project, UC Davis. Lecture for Youth Development Seminar, 4-H Center for Youth Development, UC Davis. UC Davis Campus Book Project Presentation on Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Cross-Cultural Center Annual REACH Student Retreat: Keynote Speaker. Organizer, “Two-day Campus Forum, “Connecting the Dots? The War on Terror and You,” sponsored by Davis Humanities Institute. Asian American Studies Program, UC Davis: Program Committee Member; Master Advisor; Advocacy Committee Chair. Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, UC Davis: Program Committee Member; Acting Director (Spring 2006); Curriculum Coordinator (2006-07); Faculty Development Seminar Co-Coordinator (2006-07); Major Proposal Subcommittee Coordinator; organized panel, “Asian/Arab American Studies Intersections” (Spring 2005); Undergraduate Advisor for Minor (2004-06). UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Faculty Mentor. Acting Coordinator , “Asian Pacific American Cultural Politics,” DHI Research Cluster, UC Davis:. Co-director, Certificate in Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Coordinator and developer of Asian American studies curriculum and programming, including Asian American Speaker Series and undergraduate colloquium. Advisor for students in Asian American Studies track. Initiated and coordinated Faculty Advisory Council for Asian American Studies. Participant, Departmental Diversity Assessment Seminar, sponsored by Center for Teaching and Learning, UMass, Amherst. Member, Women Faculty and Librarians of Color Group, UMass, Amherst. Member/facilitator, Women Faculty and Librarians of Color Group, Five Colleges. Member, Women’s Studies Executive Committee, UMass, Amherst. Member, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Certificate Committee, Five Colleges Consortium (Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, UMass) Member, Advisory Board, United Asia Learning Resource Center, UMass, Amherst. Professional/Disciplinary Service 19 2018201820132013-16 2012-16 2012 2011 2009-15 2008 2008-09 20042004-2005 2002-2004 2000-2006 Advisory Board Member, Critical Arab American Studies series, Syracuse University Press. Editorial Board Member, Childhood Studies series, Rutgers University Press. Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS): West Asian American Studies Section Founder and Co-Coordinator. American Studies Association: National Council Member. American Studies Association: Academic and Community Activism Caucus CoChair. Consultation on research ethics guidelines and review of literature on research ethics in the global South for Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. Workshop on research on youth for Institute of Women’s Studies, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. UC Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS): Steering Committee Member. Expert Group Meeting on World Programme of Action for Youth, United Nations, New York. May. UC Multi-campus Research Group on Transnationalizing Justice: Member UC Multi-campus Research Group on Asian American Public Policy: Faculty Advisory Group Member. Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research on Education (CARE), New York; Advisory Board Member. Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS): Board Member. Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS): AAAS Conference Program Committee Co-Chair. AAAS Book Award Committee Chair. AAAS Cultural Studies Book Award Commitee Member. Editorial advisory board member and reviewer, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, Journal of South Asian Diaspora Studies Ad hoc reviewer for journals such as: Journal of Youth Studies;Anthropology and Education; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Third World Quarterly; Citizenship Studies; Amerasia Journal; LIT (Literature, Interpretation, Theory), Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Cultural Anthropology; Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies; Social Movements; International Feminist Journal of Politics. Reviewer of manuscripts for publishers including: Blackwell, Duke University Press, New York University Press, Routledge, Stanford University Press, Temple University Press, Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewer of grant proposals; e.g. for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Member of Association for Asian American Studies, American Studies Association, American Anthropological Association. Community Service 20081998-1999 1999 Board member, Golden Thread Theater Company, San Francisco Bay Area. Board member, Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York City. Co-founder and organizer, Diasporadics, New York-based festival focusing on arts and activism in South Asian communities in the U.S. 20 1997-1999 Co-founder and program organizer, Youth Solidarity Summer, New York. Helped develop and organize an annual summer program for South Asian youth in the U.S. and Canada focusing on arts, history, and politics. Literary Readings 1998 1997 1997 1996 1996 1996 1996 “Widening the Margins/New York is Book Country” event, Asian American Writers' Workshop. Fiction reading. September. National Asian Indian American Conference, Rutgers University. "Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America": Panel and fiction reading. April. “A Celebration of Asian American Literature: Indian Political and Cultural Association,” Rutgers University. Fiction reading. March. Rethinking Marxism: University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fiction reading on panel, "Progressive Voices in South Asian Literature." December. 25th Annual Conference on South Asia: University of Madison, Wisconsin. Discussant for two panels, "Writers Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir." October. Asian American Literary Forum: Stereotypes Through Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Fiction reading. October. Seventh Annual Asian American Intercollegiate Conference: Harvard University. Fiction reading. February. Media Articles and columns for India Abroad, India Today, The Siliconeer magazine and other publications. Interviews with publications and media outlets including Newsweek, Associated Press, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Sacramento Bee, India Abroad, India Currents, The Indian American, and radio shows on KPFA, KPOO, KCSF, WBAI. 21