Sadia Saeed

Sadia Saeed, (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Scholar of Pakistan), is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Sadia received her PhD in sociology from University of Michigan in 2010. Her research focuses on intersections among nationalism, politics, law and religion in Pakistan. She is currently working on her book manuscript, provisionally titled Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan, which examines the relationship between state formation, Islamist social movements and nationalist discourses in Pakistan through a focus on the shifting legal representations of the heterodox religious minority, the Ahmadiyya community. Her research has appeared in the journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.