Nazif SHAHRANI
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Research area
Islamic movements, identify politics in failed/failing nation states, Islamic movements, Muslim family and gender dynamics, cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism, and the political ecology of state-society relations in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
Shahrani has had research and teaching positions at several American Universities, including Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Nevada-Reno, Stanford University, and UCLA, before moving to Indiana University in 1990. He was also a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution (1997–98).
He teaches in the departments of Anthropology, Central Eurasian Studies, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures departments at Indiana University. He has conducted extensive field research in Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan | 2023 | |
Afghanistan’s Muhajirin (Muslim “Refugee-Warriors”): Politics of Mistrust and Distrust of Politics | 2023 | |
Book Review of Afghanistan: a history from 1260 to the present. A Review of Jonathan Lee's book, Afghanistan. 1260 to Present, for the journal of Central Asian Survey | 2020 | |
“Peace in Afghanistan: a northern, non-Pashtun perspective” | 2018 | |
The state and community self-governance: Paths to stability and human security in post-2014 Afghanistan | 2017 | |
ANTHROPOLOGY: “BASTARD CHILD” OF IMPERIALISM’S COMING OF AGE AT THE DAWN OF 21ST CENTURY | 2017 | |
Why Muslim Sectarian Politics of Rage in the Age of? Empires of Trust? | 2016 |
Courses Recently Taught:
- • Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- • Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- • Anthropology of religion
- • Seminar in Central Asian Anthropological Studies, topics change by semester, recent topics include:
- • Family, Gender and Population Dynamics in Central Asia & the Middle East
- • Islam and Politics in Central Asia and the Middle East
- • Nomadic Pastoralism in Central Asian & Middle Eastern History and Society
- • Representations of Islam and Muslims in Anthropological Literature
- • Social Change in Central Asia
- • States and Societies in Central and Southwestern Asia