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Sadia Saeed

University of San Francisco, United States

Sadia Saeed is a historical sociologist with substantive interests in religion and politics, international human rights, and global inequalities. Her first book Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examines the contentious relationship between Islam, nationalism, and rights of religious minorities in colonial India and Pakistan. It received the 2016-2017 Book Prize from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS). Her research has also been published in Theory & Society, Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism, Political Power & Social Theory, Economic & Political Weekly, Critical Research on Religion, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, & the Middle East, and edited volumes.

Building on this work, Saeed is working on a comparative and historical project that investigates how the place of religious minorities in Indo-Persian societies has changed in the course of the transitions from pre-modern to early modern, and then to modern, forms of rule.

Saeed’s current research also focuses on struggles over decolonization and human rights in the second half of the twentieth century. She is working on a book manuscript that centers the United Nations General Assembly as a critical institutional site in these struggles.

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