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EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of Politics and Philosophy, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2010- Chair-Elect, Division of Social Studies, 2011-14 Assistant Professor of Politics and Philosophy, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2005-2010 Affiliated Faculty, Public Policy & Social Issues, Cohort Ph.D., Programme, Union Institute & University, 2010- Graduate Instructor, Political Theory, The Pennsylvania State University, Autumn 2002-Spring 2005 Graduate Instructor, Comparative Politics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003 Teaching Assistant (Political Theory & Comparative Politics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001, 2002 Research Assistant, Lobby Project, The Pennsylvania State University, 2002 Teaching Assistant, Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, 1999 Research Assistant, American Law and Society, Eugene Lang College, 1999 Intern, IUCN: The World Conservation Union, Karachi, Summer and Fall 1998 Intern, NGO Resource Centre: A Project of the Aga Khan Foundation, Karachi, Summer 1998 Intern, Network Television Marketing (Pakistan’s First Private TV Channel), Karachi, Summer 1997 Intern, The SHE Magazine (Pakistan’s First and Oldest Women’s Publication), Karachi, Summer and Fall 1994 EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Ph.D., Political Science, August 2005 Dissertation: Suffering Liberalism: A Critique of the Political Economy of Injury Committee: Nancy Love, (Advisor & Chair), John Christman, Daniel Conway, Michael Bernhard,
James Miller Major Field: Political Theory; Minor Fields: Comparative Politics, Social Thought
New School for Social Research, New York, USA Master of Arts, Liberal Studies, September 2001 Honours for Master’s Thesis titled Indian Literature and the Grand March—A Story of the
Progressive Writers’ Association. Advisor: James Miller; Reader: Robert Boyers Social & Political Theory, History, Political Economy, Social & Literary Movements
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan Master of Business Administration, December 1998 Bachelor of Business Administration, Hons., December 1997 Development Economics, Strategic Policy, Communications, Non-Governmental Sector RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Mediaeval, Modern, and Contemporary Political Thought; History of Materialism and Aesthetics; Critical Theory; Feminist Theory; American Political Thought; Political Theology; Social Movements & Revolutions; Political Culture; Colonialism & Postcoloniality; Globalisation & Immigration; Research Methods PUBLICATIONS Scholarly Publications Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010) “Voice Lessons: Suffering and the Liberal Sensorium,” Theory and Event, (Issue 13.2, June 2010) “At Home with Uncanny Labours: A Case of Working and Thinking the Social Sciences,” chapter co-authored with Social Sciences Junior Fellows 08-09, in Nancy Yanoshak (ed.), Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon’s Rock on A ‘New Pedagogy’ For The Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, May 2011) “On the Young Marx,” Review of The Young Karl Marx by David Leopold (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Journal of Politics, (July 2009) “Damages Inc.: Making the Sublime Matter,” in Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books, (Special Issue on “The Politics of Disaster”), Issue 6.2 (2005)
Non-Academic Publications Pandora: an anthology of creative writing, (editor and publisher), 1996 “Media Reality—Out of Bounds?” Communication Arts Conference Publication, Karachi, 1996 “Of Liberty, Liberalism, Envy and Hope,” Political Economy Section, The News on Sunday, Karachi, 1995 “After Babri Masjid: Hindu Temples in Karachi,” feature in Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi, 1995 “Parallel Cinema: Portraying Poetic Realism,” Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi, 1994 “The Misfits Club,” Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi, 1994 “On the Edge,” The Magazine, Dawn, Karachi, 1992 Translator of various texts and western commentary for politico-literary monthly magazine, Awami Manshoor, published in Urdu, in Karachi, Pakistan Various reportage and write-ups for the SHE magazine between Fall 1994 and 1997 WORK IN PROGRESS Love, Time, and the Anticolonial: Overtures to a Politics of the Unrequited, book project Pakistani Politics in the Mirror of the Labour Movement, translation from Urdu into English of a political memoir of a founder of the left labour movement in Pakistan Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, entries on “Class,” “Love,” “Ressentiment.” “Love, Marginality, and the Requitals of Politics,” article manuscript “Conserving Politics: Letter to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Faith, Love, and Discovery,” article manuscript CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES “The Butcher’s Wife and Other Stories of Love, Terror, and Time.” Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2011, Seattle “Love and the Requitals of Politics.” Invited talk at Bennington College, April 2011, Bennington, Vermont “Making Suffering Matter.” Invited talk at St. Michael’s College of Vermont, April 2011, Burlington “Love, Suffering, and the Unrequited: Some Initiations into a Materialist Politics of the Anticolonial Kind.” Invited talk and Mini-Seminar at the Syracuse University Humanities Centre, April 2011, Syracuse “A Materialism Worth Suffering: Marx on the Living and the Dead In Us.” Invited talk at Does Marx Still Matter?, Lewis University Annual Philosophy Conference, February 2011, Chicago “Timescapes of Love and Marginality.” Paper presented at the GEXcel Conference of Workshops on Love in Our Time: A Question for Feminism, Orebro University, December 2010, Orebro, Sweden “Eleven Theses on Love, Marginality, and the Anticolonial.” Invited talk at Union Institute & University, Summer 2010 Residency, July 2010, Cincinnati “Politics and the Privilege of Ordinary Heartbreak.” Invited talk at TEDx Berkeley, April 2010, Berkeley “Heimlich Maneouvres: Time, Space and Marginality.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2010, San Francisco “Making Suffering Matter.” Invited talk at the Feminisms for the 21st Century Lecture Series, Union College, November 2009, Albany “AnOther Love.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2009, Toronto Participant, Roundtable on “Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil: Reflections on Moral Blindness.” The Hannah Arendt Centre for Ethical and Political Thinking and The Human Rights Project, Bard College, February 2009, Annandale-on-Hudson “Not Home: Anticolonial Desire and Suspicious Space.” Paper presented at the Research Network on Love at the University of Manchester Annual Conference, Love in Our World, November 2008, Manchester, United Kingdom “Not Home: Anticolonial Desire and Suspicious Space.” Paper presented at the Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric and Symbolism, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2008, Boston “Against Garrulity.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Political Theory, November 2006, Bloomington “Tragedy’s Ordinary? A Case for a Historical Materialism of Suffering.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2006, Philadelphia “Imaginary Strangers and the Postmodern Socrates?” Introductory Remarks at the Book One Programme, featuring Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and author Kwame Anthony Appiah, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, August 2006, Great Barrington Participant, Annual Fellow Roundtable, Institute for Arts and Humanities, September 2005, Pennsylvania State University, University Park “In Representation: Suffering, Liberalism and the Enactments of Injury.” Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Political Science Foundation, Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric and Symbolism, August 2005, Washington, DC “The Labour of Suffering.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2004, Chicago “Injury and its Accomplices: Investigating the Labour of Suffering.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Social and Political Philosophy, American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December 2003, Washington, DC “Suffering Liberalism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2003, Philadelphia “The Tragic Art of the Historical Materialist—Marx and the Memory of Injury.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2002, Boston “The Tragic Art of the Historical Materialist—the Memory of Injury in Marx’s Brumaire.” Paper presented at the International Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, April 2002, New Orleans
HONOURS, GRANTS, AWARDS Guest Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Summer 2011
Visiting Research Fellowship, Trinity College, Dublin, Summer 2011 Guest Researcher, European Centre for Gender Excellence, Orebro University, Sweden, Winter 2010 Scholar-in-Residence, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, July 2010 Paper titled “AnOther Love,” nominated for the APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best Paper Award, February 2010 John A. Glover Award for Excellence in Teaching, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, May 2009 Faculty Development Fund Award, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, December 2005, October 2006, December 2006, May 2007, May 2008, October 2008, December 2008, April 2009, October 2009 Finalist, Race and Difference Initiative Fellowship, Emory University, Summer 2008 Newcomer’s Award, Annual Commencement, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, May 2006 Paper titled “In Representation: Suffering, Liberalism and the Enactments of Injury,” nominated for the APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best Paper Award, September 2005 Institute of Arts and Humanities Summer Residency, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004 Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts Research & Graduate Studies Office, The Pennsylvania State University, Autumn 2004 (tuition waiver and graduate stipend for one semester) American Political Science Association Advanced Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2003 Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2002-03, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2003 Pennsylvania State University Research and Graduate Studies Office Grants, 2002, 2003, 2004 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001-03 Graduate Assistantship, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001-05 Bruce Miller Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000-01 (awarded to one incoming graduate student each year) Honours Awarded to Master of Arts Thesis in Liberal Studies, Indian Literature and the Grand March University Fellowship 2000-2001, New School University, May 2000 (not availed) Scholarship for the Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute, Krakow, Poland, May 1999 Tuition Scholarship, New School University, January 1999-July 2000 Shell Strategic Policy Gold Medal, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, December 1998 MBA Class of 1998 Silver Medal, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, December 1998 BBA Class of 1997 Silver Medal, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, December 1997 International Trade Gold Medal, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, December 1997 United World Colleges Baccalaureate Scholarship, 1993-1995 (not availed) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE Conference Service Discussant, “New Slaveries” panel at the forthcoming Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2011, Seattle Chair, “Illegitimate Speakers: Voice, Reception, and Political Space” panel at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 2010, San Francisco Discussant, “The Reach of Method: Foundations, Insinuations and Complicities in Politics” panel at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, May 2009, Portland Section Chair for Political Theory, Annual Conference of the New England Political Science Association, 2008-09 Chair, “Aesthetics and Democracy?” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2008, Boston Chair, “Colonial, Racial and Ethnic Injustices and Inequalities” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2008, Boston Facilitator, “Myths of Time” panel at the Foundations Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric and Symbolism, September 2006, Philadelphia Chair, “Who Cares?” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2005, Washington, DC Chair, “Problems of Subjectivity and Citizenship” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2004, Chicago Facilitator, “Rhetoric for Democracies” panel at the Foundations Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism, September 2004, Chicago Discussant, “Political Theory Goes to the Movies” panel at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2004, Chicago Chair, “Accountability and Ignorance” panel at the Pennsylvania State University Rock Ethics Institute Conference on Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, March 2004, University Park Chair and Discussant for panel titled “Spectres of the Public: Politics as Spectacle” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2003, Philadelphia Moderator and Discussant, “Space and Time Between Postcolonialism and Globalisation” and “On the Subject and Matter of Subjectivity” panels at the Penn State Americanists Conference on The Emergence of Globalisation and the Americas, 1492-2002; The Pennsylvania State University, February 2003, University Park
Manuscript Reviews Politics and Gender, 2011 Contemporary Political Theory, 2010 PS: Political Science and Politics (International Relations Theory), 2010 Pearson Longman (Political Philosophy), 2009 Oxford University Press (Social Movements), 2008 Journal of Third World Studies (South Asia), 2008 Development & Initiatives Participant, New York State Summer Writers' Institute, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, July 2007 Member, Northeast Political Theory Reading Group, 2005-present Member, Executive Board, Society for Social and Political Philosophy, 2005, 2006 Vice-President, Association for South Asia Research, Pennsylvania State University, 2003-2005 Organiser, Art, Nature, Will: Engaging Jean-Jacques Rousseau, conference at The Pennsylvania State University, February 2004, University Park Member, Organising Committee, The Emergence of Globalisation and the Americas 1492-2002, conference at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, February 2003, University Park
Affiliations American Philosophical Association American Political Science Association ASIANetwork Northwest Atlantic Nietzsche Association Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy Society for Social & Political Philosophy University of Manchester Research Network on Love Western Political Science Association COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT Proseminar in Social Scientific Inquiry, 2011-12: What’s the Matter with Minerva’s Owl? On Time and Timeliness in Social Research Rousseau and Friends: Politics versus Anti-politics in Modernity, 2011 Seminar in Global Politics, 2011 Democracy and Difference, 2010 (at Union Institute and University’s Doctoral Programme in Social Justice) The Feminine and the Political, or, How I Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love the Man, 2010 Proseminar in Social Scientific Inquiry, 2008-09: Home and the Haunts of Modernity The Democratic Imagination, 2009 Politics by Other Means II: Citizens, Soldiers, Revolutionaries, 2008 Comparative Politics Focus: Contemporary US Politics, 2008 Hope Against Hope, Marx After Marx, 2007 Colonial Loves: Cultural Politics, Colonialism and After, 2007 Spirited Away: Questions of God in Politics, 2007 American Idol: Experiments in American Political Thought, 2007, 2010 Politics by Other Means I: Social Movements and Political Action, 2006, 2009 Social Action Workshop, 2006, 2009 Modern Political Ideologies, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Star-Crossed Lovers: The Politics and Philosophy of Modern Freedom, 2006 Marginalia: Encounters with Borders and Frontiers, 2006 Seminar in Comparative Politics, 2006, 2009 Introduction to Politics: Concept, Domain, Discipline, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Politics, Memory, History, 2005, 2004 Politics and the Passions, 2003, 2004, 2005 The Political Imagination, 2002 DOCTORAL THESIS COMMITTEES SERVED As Reader Tanushree Ghosh (English, Syracuse University, 2011), Cheryl Chaffin (Social Justice, Union Institute & University, ongoing), John Giordano (Social Justice, Union Institute & University, ongoing) UNDERGRADUATE THESES ADVISED As Director From the Few to the Many: Education and the Creation of Three Nations In India (Jamila BenKhoud, 2011—Cross-Cultural Relations, Islamic Social Formations) Woman’s Body, Modern War: Forming the Feminine in the Age of Industry (Elizabeth Davis, 2010—Political Studies) The Town Hall and Democracy: Explorations of American Fantasies, Dreams, and Emotions of a Political Space (Jessica Lee, 2010—Political Studies) Healthcare Reform in the Welfare State: A Case Study of Contemporary American Liberalism in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Andrew Levin, 2010—Political Studies) Un-Nailin’ Palin: The Making and Unmaking of a Woman in Politics, (Laura Cheung, 2009—Political Studies, Historical Studies) Labyrinths of the Object: The Strange Case of Nietzsche’s Wagner, (Brendan Flynn, 2009—Political Studies) Lands on the Edge of Land: Imagining Jewish Peoplehood and Attachment to Israel, (Dara Levy-Bernstein, 2009—Political Studies, Social Action/Social Change) Beauty is Pain: Articulating Mutilation and Subjecthood, (Nuola Akinde, 2009—African-American Studies, Gender Studies) The Legacy and Ideology of American Copyright Law, (Brian Smith, 2008—Political Studies, African-American Studies, Asian Studies) A Fan-Fic Thesis [on trauma, the body and performance] (Matthew Vitemb, 2008—Political Studies) Implications of the Case of the Republic of Korea for Civil-Military Relations Theory, (Olen Helgesen, 2007—Political Studies) Amor Cambium, Neologos and Cliché: Beyond the Limits of Metaphysics and Towards a Creative Pragmatism, (Thomas Willkens, 2007—Philosophical Studies, Contemporary Critical Theory)
As Reader (selective list) The Politics of Apathy: A Slipstream Manifesto (Rodman Parvin, 2011—Political Studies, Creative Writing) Don't Judge a Man by the Words of his Mother, Listen to the Comments of his Neighbors: Interactions between Jews and Ukrainians in Nineteenth-Century Galicia (Jaime Barak, 2009—Historical Studies, European Studies) Parades! (Noah Appelbaum, 2009—Music, Theatre) Fantasies of African Suffering, (Christina Horton, 2009—Social Action/Social Change) Through the Red Window and Letters Home (Laurel Harig, 2008—Cross-Cultural Relations) From Scheherzade to Farsh: A Collection of Interactions and Interviews with Women in Contemporary Iran (Beeta Jahedi, 2008—Gender Studies) To Vote or Not to Vote? An Exploration of Individual Citizen Participation (Dana Bucy, 2008—Political Studies, Psychology) The War on Drugs (David Loeser, 2008—Political Studies) Subversive Cinema, (Katherine Bradshaw, 2007—Film Studies) La Lucha Sigue: The Movement for a People’s Government in Oaxaca, Mexico, (Katharina Kempf, 2007—Political Studies, Gender Studies) Enlightened Partitions: Political Liberalism and the Foreclosing of a United India, (Ajay Madiwale, 2006—Political Studies) Reorienting Turkey: Debating Access to the European Union, (Edward Pickett Oliver, 2006—Political Studies) History, Theory & Practice: Artistic Expression: Locating the Sublime in the First Amendment (Casey Elizabeth Roncoroni, 2006—Political Studies) CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS Organiser and Facilitator, Classrooms Without Walls, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, April 2011 Participant, Forum on Revolutions n the Middle-East, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, February 2011 Workshop Facilitator, “Hearing Voices: Echoes and Reverberations of a Rap on Race,” Diversity Day, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, November 2009 Panelist, “Reckoning the Modern: Traverses and Tangents,” Annual Sophomore Seminar Panel, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, October 2009 “Walking on Walls: Notes on W.E.B. DuBois and E.M. Forster.” Annual Sophomore Seminar Lecture, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, October 2007 Participant, Roundtable on “Evolution, Relativity, and Cosmic Dissolution: Science, Modernity, and the Challenges of Epistemological Relativism.” Bard College at Simon’s Rock, November 2006 Workshop Facilitator, “‘Sick in the Head?’ Person, Politics, Pathology and Community,” Diversity Day, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, November 2008 Workshop Facilitator, “Bystander Goes to the Movies,” Diversity Day, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, November 2008 Workshop Co-Leader, “‘I am Tired of Talking About This…’—On the Limits of Liberal Reasoning,” Diversity Teach-In, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, March 2006 Workshop Co-Leader, “Where Do We Go From Here? Rethinking Diversity, Reimagining Conviviality,” Diversity Teach-In, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, March 2006 CAMPUS SERVICE Curricular and Co-Curricular Initiatives Chair-Elect, Division of Social Studies, 2011-14 Chair, Sub-Committee on General Education Reform (Sophomore Year), Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2010-11 Director, The Junior Fellows Programme & Proseminar on Social Scientific Inquiry, Division of Social Sciences Signature Programme, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2008-09, 2011-12 Participant, Pedagogy Book Writing Retreat—Workshops I & II, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, June & July 2008 Faculty, Writing & Thinking Workshop, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Departmental Service Chair-Elect, Division of Social Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2011-2014 Member, History Search Committee, 2010, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Member, African and African-American Studies Search Committee, 2009-10, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Member, Anthropology Search Committee, 2007-08, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Member, Economics Search Committee, 2006-07, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Member, Philosophy Search Committee, 2005-06, Bard College at Simon’s Rock College Service Chair-Elect, Division of Social Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2011-2014 Member, Standards and Procedures Committee, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2011 Campus Sexual Assault Responder, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Member, Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Committee, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2006-08, 2008-10 Member, Race Task Force, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2005-2007 Faculty Co-Advisor, Owl’s Nest Coalition/Black Student Union, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2007-2009 Faculty Advisor, Politics Society, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2005-2008 Faculty Advisor, Model United Nations, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2005-2009 Faculty Advisor, Students for Social Thought and Research, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2009- OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Co-Chair, Graduate and Fixed-Term Employees’ Organisation, American Federation of Teachers—Pennsylvania State University, 2001-02 Project Leader, Adopt-a-School Programme, Sind Education Foundation; Adoption of The Haji Ramzan Government School, Malir, Karachi (on behalf of the Community Works Society, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi), 1997-1998 Organiser and Director, Artifice: A Four-Day Celebration Of Theatre (Karachi’s first social/political theatre festival), 1998 Organiser and Director, Street Theatre Project, Institute of Business Administration, 1997-1998 Editor, Pandora (an anthology of poetry, prose and artwork), 1995-1997 Freelance contributor to Dawn’s The Review, Karachi, 1991-1998 Editor, The City School Yearbook (The Citizen), 1992-1994; Flagholder for the Citizens Alumni Association OTHER INTERESTS Ceramics; Fabric Arts; Photography; Film; Publishing & Design; Translation; Adapting & Directing Plays LANGUAGES Native speaker of Urdu; proficient in English; able to read Punjabi, German, Arabic and Persian; familiar with Ancient Greek and French REFERENCES Samuel Chambers, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, samchambers@jhu.edu Chris Coggins, Social Sciences, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, ccoggins@simons-rock.edu Nancy Love, Government and Justice Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University, lovens@appstate.edu Lori Marso, Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, Union College, lmarso@union.edu