Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on the histories of memory and identity; women, war, and peace; histories of premodern and contemporary South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and engaging the history of Islam and Islamic values of peace. As the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies she advances the study of peace with a more humanities-oriented approach by paying attention to culture, history, and individual and group agency. As a historian of South Asia, she is concerned with religion, gender, identity and memory in South Asia. She is the author of the award-winning books, "Fragmented Memory: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India" (Duke, 2005) and "Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971" (Duke 2010). As well, she has edited several books and has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles and essays. Her concern for the vulnerable and marginalized in society who are often the targets of hatred and violence drives her passion for advancing scholarly and public understanding of peace studies using a historical approach. Currently, she is writing a trilogy on ‘People’s Peace’ and is researching on select Muslim revolutionaries of the interwar period (1920-1940) for writing a monograph on the "Muslim Imagination of Freedom from British Colonialism." Saikia hails from Assam in northeast India and has deep connections with scholars and public in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Turkey.
South Asia; Muslim identity and history; gender and violence; memory; refugees and children's history.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Edited Books
Monograph under Preparation
Edited Books under Preparation
Refereed Journal Articles
Refereed Book Chapters
Spring 2022 | |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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HST 394 | Special Topics |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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HST 392 | Modern India |
Fall 2017 | |
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HST 598 | Special Topics |
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