NIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed "post-modern." More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s […]

JUNED SHAIKH Assistant Professor of History, UCSC Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste –more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade […]

DEAN MATHIOWETZ Associate Professor of Politics, UCSC Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes sense of the challenges that luxury poses for the realization of democratic aims, and explores the possibilities offered by leisure as a counterpoint to these […]

DAVID L. CLARK Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Canada In addition to completing a book on Immanuel Kant’s late work, (Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant), David Clark is pursuing two projects: one on the question of animality, atrocity, and the […]

TERRY BURKE Research Professor of History, UCSC Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial […]