Welcome

I am an anthropologist broadly interested in postcolonial regimes of legality and governance; domesticity, kinship, and sexuality; secularism, Hinduism, and Islam; and everyday life, memory, and identity in multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies. 

Currently, I am working on a book project where I think about these themes in the context of Hindu communities in Pakistan’s Sindh province. My project, tentatively titled Marvi's Sisters: Hindu Belonging and the Muslim State in Pakistan, is an ethnographic examination of how religious minorities navigate the regulation of difference and identity in a modern Muslim polity. It focuses on everyday practices of political claim-making and the management of domestic relations by Pakistani Hindu women. Read more about my research here.

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at LUMS University. I received my doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. Please contact me at ghazal dot asif at lums dot edu dot pk or by using this form.