The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @nuqatar.bsky.social produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South.
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics. Twitter @yakabikaj
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
doctoral candidate @ucberkeley • cover: Urak Valley, outskirts of Quetta
Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Advancing Critical Knowledge on Global Media, Communication, and Public Life.
Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
“Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice." --Simone Weil
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268210908/islamic-ethics-and-spiritual-sovereignty/
Writing poems and essays | Studying religion, ethics, and politics in urban South Asia | PhD @BUAnthropology | she/her
Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
music listening, audio, films, media, communication, cultural studies
I teach history and communications at Columbia University. I am working on American anti-monopoly thought and practice, 1760-present. For more details, click on my website. https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/richard-r-john
Reporter, LA Times. Enviro/Sci/Health. I cover #H5N1 #BirdFlu and Plastic. And other stuff, too (Valley Fever, Octopus rights, wild pigs, and more). Located in SF Bay area.
State Editor, Los Angeles Times | Ex WaPo, McClatchy, SacBee, N&O | Repatriated Californian | Banana Slug | Community Volunteer | Cyclist | Liverpool fan | No, I don’t care how many followers you have.