Juned Shaikh

Juned Shaikh, a postdoctral associate with the Council, holds a PhD in History from the University of Washington, Seattle. Drawing together research interests in modern South Asia, labor history, urban history, comparative colonialism and Dalit studies, Juned’s dissertation is titled “Dignity and Dalit Social Imaginaries: Entanglements of Caste, Space, and Ideologies in Mumbai, 1898-1997”. His work on labour history, and caste politics, was recently recognized by the Association of Asian Studies’ as the best graduate student paper in the field of South Asian Studies, and he has published in India Reviewand Economic and Political Weekly. Juned will offer the courses: Urban Imaginaries in India and History of Modern South Asia.