Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Mashail Malik — Discrimination and Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Creates Slack for Poor Governance

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Friday, October 23, 2020

12:00pm – 1:30pm EST

Mashail Malik studys how social identities – such as ethnicity and class – both shape and are shaped by political life. Currently a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellow, a Ric Weiland Graduate Fellow, and a Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, Malik, will begin her appointment as Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University in fall 2021. Her dissertation project is centered on the politics of ethnicity in Karachi – Pakistan’s largest megacity. Her research agenda further includes topics on political violence, state repression, civil-military relations, and the intersection of identity and economic conflict. 

Discussant: Steven Rosenzweig, Boston University

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics