Dina M. Siddiqi
Fellow, Anthropology, BRAC University
Dina M. Siddiqi divides her time between New York and Dhaka, where she is Professor of Anthropology, BRAC University. Her publications, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, cover a broad spectrum: the global garment industry; gender justice and non-state dispute resolution systems, and the intersections of Islam, nationalism and feminist cultural politics. She is currently working on a book entitled Elusive Solidarities: “Muslim” Women and Transnational Feminism at Work. Siddiqi is on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series, a member of the South Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), and on the Gender Advisory Council of the Lahore School of Management Sciences (LUMS). She is also part of the Advisory Council of the South Asian Network of Gender Activists and Trainers (SANGAT). She has extensive research experience with Bangladeshi human rights organizations, including Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST).
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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