Research Scholar Islam and politics in Indonesia and Malaysia, discourse and media analysis, religious and political authority, secularism, public morality, and Islamic feminism Saskia Schäfer completed her doctorate at the Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has since held a lecturer position at the Institute of Asian and … [Read more...]

Sanjay Pinto received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard in 2012 and has an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. His current research focuses on the comparative political economy of work and employment, including the conditions facing low-wage service workers in economically advanced countries. Email: sjp2184@columbia.edu   … [Read more...]

Michael R. Griffiths received his PhD in English from Rice University in 2012, completing his dissertation under the auspices of a Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship. Griffiths’s dissertation explores the biopolitical dimensions of settler colonialism, the formation of public spheres around motifs of indigeneity, and questions of cultural memory. He has taught courses on … [Read more...]

Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies 2012-13 at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Cultural anthropology of religion and ritual, mainland Southeast Asia, urban anthropology, and cosmopolitanism and nationalism Before joining WEAI, Andrew Johnson's most recent position was that of Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Center of the National University … [Read more...]

Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (Stanford PhD 2011) is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research falls within the concerns of political anthropology and economic anthropology, as well as the anthropology of art. Currently, she is working on an ethnography of Kazakhstan's art world after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Tentatively entitled "Creating Markets: Artists and Cultural … [Read more...]