The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to announce a new role within the center: the Faculty Director for South Asian Studies. Starting on August 16, 2024, the Center’s first Faculty Director for South Asian Studies will be Professor Rini Mehta (Comparative & World...

Historian Antoinette Burton recently published a thought-provoking new edited collection titled Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, co-edited alongside Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost. This groundbreaking volume challenges traditional histories of empire by questioning human...