2023-24 Faculty Fellow
About
Farina Mir is a historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the religious, cultural, and social history of late-colonial north India. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Islam in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century India. Her earlier work focused on the social and cultural history of the Punjab. Her first book, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (University of California Press, 2010), was awarded the AHA’s 2011 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History and the 2012 Bernard Cohn Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
As an Eisenberg fellow, Professor Mir will be working on her book manuscript, "Genres of Muslim Modernity: Being Muslim in Late-Colonial India, 1858-1947," which examines Urdu-language akhlaq—religious/literary texts on ethics—and how they reveal an important history of Islam and Muslims in South Asia.
