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SADIA SAEED Department of Sociology, Yale University PO Box 208265 New Haven, CT 06520-8265 [email protected] Ph.: 734-709-8149
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2013 – 14 Associate Research Scientist, Department of Sociology, Yale University
2011–13 ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University.
2010–11 Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow of Law, Society & Culture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Michigan (Sociology), 2010
M.A. University of Notre Dame (Sociology), 2003
B.Sc. Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan (Economics), 2001
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Political Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Law and Society; Empire and Colonialism; Pakistan and South Asia
BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS
Defining Religious Difference: Politics, National Identity and Law in Pakistan
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
PUBLISHED
2013 “Desecularization as an Instituted Process: National Identity and Religious Difference in Pakistan,” Economic and Political Weekly (Forthcoming)
2012 “Political Fields and Religious Movements: The Exclusion of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan,” Political Power and Social Theory 23: 189-223.
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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (CONTD.)
2007 “Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalization of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 7(3): 132-52.
IN PROGRESS
“Perils of Politicization: Courts and the Question of Religious Difference in Pakistan”
“Making Religious Claims, Activating Imperial Chains: Rethinking Agency and Action in British India”
“Ethnographic Representations, Liberal Reform and Territorial Annexation in British India”
BOOK REVIEWS
2012 Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco, by Zakia Salime, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), Social Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter 43 (3): 6-7.
2012 Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies, by Elke Winter, (University of Toronto Press, 2011), International Sociology 27 (5): 643-46.
2011 Constitutional Theocracy, by Ran Hirschl, (Harvard University Press, 2010), 18 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 961.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Lecture Course Foundations of Modern Social Theory, Yale University
Undergraduate Seminars Political Sociology, Yale University Law in Muslim Societies: Theory, History, Practice, Yale University Introduction to Sociological Theory, University of Michigan
Graduate Seminar Political Sociology, Yale University
Teaching Assistant University of Michigan, 2004-06 (Principles of Sociology, Person and Society, Introduction to Sociological Theory)
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
2011 ACLS New Faculty Fellowship 2010 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan (Declined) 2009 The Charles and Louise Tilly Prize for Best Paper, Social Science History Association, for an earlier version of “Political Fields and Religious Movements: The Exclusion of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan”
Rackham International Research Award, University of Michigan 2008 Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar Fellowship, University of Michigan 2007 American Institute of Pakistan Studies Fellowship 2005 Doctoral Thesis Research Grant, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan International Institute Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan 2003 LS&A Fellowship, University of Michigan 2001 University Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
SELECT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
INVITED
2012 “Rights of Ahmadiyya Community and Religio-politicization of the Judiciary in Pakistan.” Conference Pakistan: Politics at the Crossroads, Yale University. November 2.
“Hailing the ‘Muslim’ Citizen: National Identity, State and the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan.” Conference Pakistan: A State in Crisis, University of Michigan. March 24.
“Hailing the ‘Muslim’ Citizen: National Identity, State and the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan.” South Asia Studies Colloquium, Yale University. February 15.
2011 “The Nation and Its Heretics: Courts, State Authority and Rights of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan.” Workshop on Pluralism, Coexistence and Conflict: Majority and Minority Communities in Muslim Societies. Harvard University. October 28-29.
2010 “Between the Flag and the Preamble: Islam in Constitutional Debates in Pakistan, 1947-9.” Conference Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia. Indiana University Maurer School of Law. March 4-5.
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PRESENTATIONS (CONTD.)
OTHER
2011 “The Origins of Authoritarianism in Pakistan.” Annual Social Science History Association Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17-20.
“Hailing the ‘Muslim’ Citizen: National Identity and the State Field in Modern Pakistan.” Annual Conference of American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, Nevada. August 20-23.
“The Nation and Its Heretics: ‘Muslim Citizenship’, State Power and Minority Rights in Pakistan.” Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, June 5-6.
2010 “Toward a Sociology of Normative Legal Repertoires: The Criminalization of Ahmadis Inside Pakistan's Juridical Field.” Center for Law, Society & Culture Workshop, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. December 2.
2010 “The Nation and Its Heretics: ‘Muslim Citizenship’, Nation-State and the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan.” Annual meeting of Law & Society Association. Chicago, Illinois. May 27-30.
2009 “Rethinking State Autonomy: Citizenship, Community and State in Pakistan.” Annual Social Science History Association Conference. Long Beach, California. November 12-15.
“Law-in-Action in Judicial Debates on the 'Ahmadi Question' in Pakistan.” 38th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 22-25.
“From Accommodation to Exclusion: Re-thinking State, Citizenship, and Community in Modern Pakistan.” 2nd Annual Middle East and Islamic Studies Conference, San Francisco State University, California. October 16-17.
“Contesting the Boundaries of ‘Muslim Citizenship’ in Modern Pakistan.” 6th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit. March 27-28.
2008 “‘Subject to Law, Public Order, and Morality’: The Shifting Meanings of Human Rights in Pakistan’s Courtrooms.” Annual Conference of American Sociological Association. Boston, Massachusetts. August 1-4.
“Criminalizing the ‘Heretic’: Judicial Debates on the “Ahmadi Question” in Pakistan in the Long 1980s.” SSRC Conference “Inter-Asian Connections”. Dubai, U.A.E. February 21-23.
2007 “Hailing the ‘Muslim Citizen’: State Nationalism and the Social Construction of the “Heretic” in Pakistan.” Annual Conference of American Sociological Association. New York City, New York. August 11-14.
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PRESENTATIONS (CONTD.)
2006 “Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalization of Ahmadiyya Community.” 17th Annual ASEN Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science. London, U.K. April 17-19.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-organizer (with Christophe Jaffrelot and Steven Wilkinson), Elections in South Asia Workshop, Yale University, Fall 2013
Co-organizer (with Jennifer Bussell and Shailaja Paik), Modern South Asia Workshop, Yale University, Spring 2013
Program Committee, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011-2013
Convenor, Comparative Research Workshop, Department of Sociology, Yale University, 2011-12
Editorial Board, Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter, 2007-9
Manuscripts Reviewed for American Journal of Sociology and The Sociological Quarterly
Memberships in American Sociological Association, American Academy of Religion, Law and Society Association and Social Science History Association
REFERENCES
George Steinmetz (Dissertation Chair), Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan [email protected]
Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology, Yale University [email protected]
Genevieve Zubrzycki, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan [email protected]
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of South Asia Studies Council, Yale University [email protected]
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