Dr. Kamran Ali

Biography

Kamran Asdar Ali is a Professor and Department Chair specializing in Anthropology, Middle East Studies, and Asian Studies. He served as Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas, Austin from 2011 to 2017. His notable works include 'Planning Family Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves' published by UT Press in 2002, and several edited volumes such as 'Gendering Urban Space: Middle East, South Asia, Africa' (Palgrave, 2008) and 'Gender, Politics, Performance: South Asia' (Oxford, 2015). He has been associated with various prestigious institutions as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1998-1999), a senior fellow at ISIM, University of Leiden (2005), and a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2010-2011). His research interests encompass gender, sexuality, health, political economy, post-colonialism, labor history, and popular culture, primarily focusing on the Middle East and South Asia. Ali has extensively published articles addressing issues of health, gender, ethnicity, class politics, and sexuality in Pakistan, with recent works like 'Communism in Pakistan: Politics, Class, and Activism, 1947-1972' (IB Tauris, Oxford, 2015).

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