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• NAME: Mana Kia
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Postcolonial
• GRADUATE DEPARTMENT: Joint program in History and Middle East Studies
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Early Modern and Modern Middle East (especially Iran), Indian Ocean, and South Asia.
  • British Empire, Race, Class and Migration (particularly in the Indian Ocean).
  • Islam and Shia Islam.
  • Gender and Sexuality.
  • Nationalisms.
  • The continuity and difference between early modern and modern cultural history (categories of affiliation and difference).
• DISSERTATION: “Contours of Persianate Community: Mobility, Friendship and Origin, 1722-1835,” critiques how scholars have read the nation, as an imagined community, backward into times when place of origin was only one basis of affiliation and often not the most important. Instead of anticipating a national subject, I examine how the sense of belonging to a shared Persianate culture was crafted in social interactions in the 18th and early 19th centuries between Iran and India.
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: manakia@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 042
• OFFICE PHONE: 5-3348

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