EXPERTS ON KASHMIR
Understanding the politics of Kashmir poses a great challenge given the amount of misinformation, state funded propaganda, and vitriolic discourse that depicts Kashmiris as "treasonous terrorists" creating instability and grief for the "peaceful" country of India. Rather than own up to its illegal authoritarian, colonial campaign in Kashmir, the Indian government continues to portray itself both as Kashmir's benevolent savior and as a victim of Pakistan-backed border violence, thus justify its alarming military crusade.
Fortunately, a growing body of academics, policy analysts, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and activists have engaged in in-depth research and analysis of Kashmir from several interdisciplinary vantage points.
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Journalists can reach out to these individuals for quotes, opinion pieces, radio shows, podcasts, TV interviews, and more.
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Organizers and community activists may reach out to organize events, talks, panels, and conferences.
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MOHAMAD JUNAID
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts
@mjunaidr
Anthropology, Militarization, Political Subjectivity.
Massachusetts, USA
ATHER ZIA
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology. University of North Colorado.
@aziakashmir
Political anthropology, Gender, Activism, Poetry.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
NITASHA KAUL
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations. University of Westminister in London.
@nitashakaul
Indian Nationalism, Gender and Identity, Hindutva.
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London, UK
MIRZA WAHEED​
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Journalist, Novelist.
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@MirzaWaheed
Politics, Literature, Current Events.
London, UK
HAFSA KANJWAL​
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Assistant Professor of History.
Lafayette College.
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Kashmiri History, Youth Mobilization, Muslim Identity.
New Jersey, USA
MONA BHAN
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Associate Professor, Syracuse University. Syracuse University.
@bhanbrogmo
Ladakh, Borders, Ethnography, Infrastructure, Ecology.
Syracuse, USA
INSHAH MALIK
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Assistant Professor, Kardan University.
@InshahMalik
Gender, Protest, Literature and Identity.
Afghanistan
HUMA DAR
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Lecturer. University of Berkeley.
@baalegibreel
Decolonization, Resistance.
Berkeley, CA, USA
UZMA FALAK
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PhD Student. University of Heidelberg.
@Uzma_falak
Gender, Memory, Poetry.
Germany
DEEPTI MISRI​
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Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Gender, Violence,Representation.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
BINISH AHMED
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PhD Candidate, Kashmir Gulposh
Ryerson University.
@binishahmed
Indigenous sovereignty, Self-determination, Government.
Toronto, Canada
GOWHAR FAZILI
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Sociologist.
University of Delhi.
Political subjectivities, Masculinity.
New Delhi, India
ZAINAB RAMAHI
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Lawyer
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@falastinikoor
Article 370/35A, India/Israel, Kashmir/Palestine.
California, USA
SAMREEN MUSHTAQ​
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Researcher, Freelance writer
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@Samreen_mushtaq
Gender, Histories of Dispossession.
New Delhi, India
TAHIR FIRAZ
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Researcher
@TahirFiraz
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Political Violence , Youth resistance.
FARHAN MUJAHID CHAK
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Associate Professor of International
Affairs. Qatar University.
@fchak
Kashmir and International Affairs.
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Qatar
NOSHEEN ALI
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Assistant Professor.
Aga Khan University.
@nosheenali
Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan
HALEY DUSCHINSKI​
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Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Ohio University.
@anthrohaley
Law and Society, Human Rights, Militarization & Impunity.
Ohio, USA
SHRIMOYEE GHOSH
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Lawyer and Legal Scholar.
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@shrimoyee_n
International human rights, Justice, Emergency laws, Impunity.
India
SAIBA VARMA​
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology. University of California at San Diego.
Mental health, Medical
Anthropology, Violence.
California, USA
OMER AIJAZI
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Postdoc Fellow.
University of Toronto.
Disaster Management, Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Canada
ALANA HUNT​
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Alana Hunt Artist, Writer
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Indigenous rights, Art.
Australia
DILNAZ BOGA
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Journalist
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Current affairs, Politics, Media.
Mumbai, India
SHUBH MATHUR
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Anthropologist, Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network
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@smathur16
Human rights abuses.
ARVIND RAJAGOPAL
Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication. New York University.
Indian public sphere, Hindu nationalism.
New York, NY
KAVITA KRISHNAN
Political Activist
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Human Rights.
New Delhi, India
RAKHSHAN RIZWAN
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Independent Scholar, Poet
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Kashmir Life Narratives, Art, Human Rights.
California, USA
SANJAY KAK
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Activist, Filmmaker, Author.
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Film, Resistance politics, Photography.
New Delhi, India
SUVIR KAUL​
Professor of English. University of Pennsylvania.
Kashmiri literature, Poetry, Culture.
Pennsylvania, USA
NISHITA TRISAL
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PhD Candidate. University of Michigan.
@ntrisal
Political economy of Kashmir, Finance.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
IDREES KANTH​
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Lecturer. Ambedkar University.
Kashmiri history.
India
IMMAD NAZIR
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Human Rights Advocate
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@immadn
Enforced disappearances, Human rights violations.
Nuremburg, Germany
IMRAAN MIR​
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Kashmiri American Lawyer
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Diaspora, Law, Human rights, Current events.
Arizona, USA
ABIR BAZAZ​
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Academic, Filmmaker
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Language and literature, Religion, Intellectual history.
India
MUDASIR AMIN
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Researcher, Freelance writer
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Politics, Histories of dispossession. New Delhi, India
MEHROOSH TAK​
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Economist
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Economics.
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London, UK
IDRISA PANDIT
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Assistant Professor, Studies in Islam. University of Waterloo.
@takhtsulaiman
Islam, Women.
Waterloo, Canada
GOLDIE OSURI
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Associate Professor of Sociology.
University of Warwick.
@goldosuri
Media & Cultural Studies, Sovereignty, Postcolonial nationalism.
Warwick. UK
MRIDU RAI
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Professor of History.
Presidency University.
@mridurai
19th & 20th Century Kashmiri history, Hindu-Muslim Relations
Kolkata, India
ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR
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Professor of English Literature. Kings College London.
Cultural politics of Kashmir, Literature.
London, UK
SUCHITRA VIJAYAN​
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Executive Director, Polis Project
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@suchitarv
International human rights, Law,
War and violence.
New York, NY USA
FRENY MANECKSHA
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Journalist, Writer
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@evilsickularist
Women and Gender.
India
BHAVNEET KAUR
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PhD Candidate. Delhi University.
Memory, Anthropology.
Delhi, India
PRIYAMVADA GOPAL
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Reader, Faculty of English.
University of Cambridge
@priyamvadagopal
Colonialism, Empire, Postcolonialism
Cambridge, UK
MAHUM SHABIR
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JD Candidate
CUNY, School Of Law
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
New York, USA
SANJAY RUPARELIA
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Associate Professor.
The New School.
@SVRuparelia
Liberal economic reform, Hindu nationalism.
New York, NY
JEAN DREZE
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Development Economist
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Human rights, Economic Development,
New Delhi, India
ZUNAIRA KOMAL​
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PhD Student.
University of California
War On Terror, Islamic Resistance, Psychiatry, Militarized Humanitarianism
Davis, USA