Kamran Asdar Ali
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Contact
E-mail: asdar@mail.utexas.eduPhone: 471-7531, 471-3550
Office: EPS 1.116
Office Hours: FALL 2009: Tuesdays 12-2 p.m.
Campus Mail Code: C3200
Interests
Gender, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism;Biography
Kamran Asdar Ali is associate professor of anthropology, Middle East Studies and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (UT Press, 2002). He is the co-editor of Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (Palgrave 2008) and Comparing Cities: Middle East and South Asia, both with Martina Rieker, with whom he also coordinates the Shehr Network on Comparative Urban Landscapes. He has published several articles on issues of health and gender in Egypt and on Pakistani politics and popular culture. He previously taught at the University of Rochester (1995-2001) and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1998-99). His more recent work has been on ethnic, class and gender issues in Pakistan and is currently finishing a book length manuscript on the social history of the working class movement during Pakistan's early years.
Additional affiliations: South Asia Institute, Population Research Center, and Women and Gender Studies.
