Dina M. Siddiqi
Professor of Anthropology, BRAC University
Dina M. Siddiqi is Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. She has also been a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at BRAC University since 2013. She serves on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series; and is Chair of the South Asia Council (SAC), the Association of Asian Studies (AAS). She is on the Advisory Committees of the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS); the Political Conflict, Gender and Peoples' Rights Project (Berkeley and Columbia University) and the South Asian Feminist Network (SANGAT). Siddiqi’s research and publications cover a range of issues grounded in the study of the politics of gender, sexuality and Islam in Bangladesh. She is the author of “Secularism Quests, National Others: Revisiting Bangladesh’s Constituent Assembly Debates” in Asian Affairs: Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (2015), "Scandals of Seduction and the Seductions of Scandal" in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015), “Starving for Justice: Bangladeshi Garment Workers in a ‘Post-Rana Plaza’ World” in International Labor and Working Class History (2015), and “Solidarity, Sexuality and Saving Muslim Women in Neoliberal Times”in Women’s Studies Quarterly (2014).
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