New Delhi: More than 600 scholars who work on Asia have written to the organisers of the AAS-in-Asia conference and the board of directors of the Association for Asian Studies expressing their anger and dismay at the organising committees “failures and negligence” in informing participants and others that the government of India had barred Pakistani scholars from attending the conference, to be held in Ashoka University.
As The Wire had reported earlier, foreign scholars had to apply for an Indian visa with a copy of the invitation and no-objection letters from the ministries of external affairs and home affairs.
But the political clearance letter from the MEA includes explicit instructions from the Indian government to not include any scholars from Pakistan at the event. The organisers said in a statement that ban on Pakistani scholars went against the free exchange of ideas.
The AAS yesterday released a statement on the “controversy” around the conference, responding to the scholars’ letter. They said that they tried to use “back-channel negotiations” to ensure that scholars from Pakistan are able to attend the event. The group has claimed that they did not know, when choosing Ashoka University as the venue, that the MEA would impose this kind of restriction. “While there are financial costs in canceling a conference for which reservations were made over a year in advance, there is a broader question to be addressed: Is there merit in working with Asian institutions in the hope of helping to strengthen academic freedoms and civil society, recognizing the contexts of current limitations? We might also go further to ask if scholars should refuse to participate in international conferences held in any country with problematic government policies. This would include the U.S., which has a blanket ban on potential participants from seven countries,” the AAS has said.
Full text of the letter written by the 600-plus scholars is reproduced below.
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Dear Organizers of AAS-in-Asia and the Board of Directors:
We, the undersigned, would like to register our written protest regarding the upcoming AAS-in-Asia conference to be held in New Delhi from 5-8th July 2018. We object to the AAS-in-Asia’s organizing committee’s failures and negligence to do the following:
1. The Association for Asian Studies failed to inform all conference participants in a timely manner that the AAS received explicit directives from the Government of India to exclude scholars from Pakistan. These directives were written in a letter from the Ministry of External Affairs dated 19 February 2018, prior to the deadline for registration. As such the conference organizer’s claim that too much prior planning and organization had already been done, does not hold weight. However, it is only recently (7 June) that this letter has come to our and the public’s attention. Had the AAS appropriately communicated the nature of these directives, participants could have made informed decisions about whether to support and attend the conference. The delay in informing scholars of the likelihood of rejected visas (in May) amounts to a lack of transparency by AAS. In other words, the implication is not simply that there was inadequate time for planning, but that the delay in sharing this critical information with participants served to limit our options for protest and has shifted the financial implications of any protest onto individual scholars (for many participants it is no longer financially viable to boycott the conference at this late stage).
2. While AAS does not have the “authority” to change government policy, as a professional body representing thousands of scholars globally, it has a responsibility to lead with integrity and take a stand against attacks on academic freedoms. It is ethically unacceptable that the AAS did not immediately publish a statement of support for our Pakistani colleagues and did not immediately condemn the government’s attacks on academic freedom. This is despite the fact that the American Institute for Pakistan Studies was a cosponsor of the conference. In our opinion, the AAS’s silence on this issue indicates their complicity with the Government of India.
3. The Association for Asian Studies defines itself as a “professional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia.” As such, the directive from the Indian government directly contravenes the AAS’ own mission statement. Despite the organization’s statement that they “deeply regret” the Indian government’s decision to ban Pakistani nationals from attending the conference, we feel that the AAS could have taken more proactive steps to assert their independence from the Indian government and to explore alternative strategies for holding the conference, including finding an alternative location, setting up a virtual conference, or formally registering our protest as a scholarly organization with the Indian government and other relevant parties. AAS failed in its duty to inform its members of these developments which negatively impacts all scholars who work in Asia and who consider the AAS to be an important intellectual home.
4. The AAS cannot simultaneously claim to represent scholarship on Asia while allowing its conference to become the grounds for the Indian state–or any other state, for that matter–to enact virulent and blatant forms of religious, national, or other forms of exclusionary violence. The guidelines for submissions for the conference clearly mentioned that preference would be given to panels which were diverse in terms of regional representation from Asia. If this was in fact true, then for AAS to accept the Indian Government’s missive to not include Pakistani nationals in the conference could mean only one of two things: they have no problem with Pakistan as a region going unrepresented at an international annual conference on Asia, or, even more problematically, they want Pakistan to be represented but just not by Pakistanis themselves. This approach stifles critical, cross-border conversations that could occur at the conference–which are even more urgently needed today, given forms of xenophobia and nationalism across the world. AAS’ tacit complicity with this position of excluding scholars on the basis of national origin is unconscionable.
We, the following signatories and scholars of Asia, are deeply disappointed that AAS-in-Asia failed to express a collective ethical and political commitment to academic freedom in Asia by canceling this conference. We urge the committee and Board of Directors to reevaluate their mission statement and their “statement on the denial of visas” in light of critical global events that threaten to erode the legitimacy, political value, free expression and dissemination of academic work.
As scholars invested in challenging and not just studying the dominant configurations of Asia, we expect AAS to be accountable to its own mission and its membership.
Sincerely,
- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University USA
- Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor, University of Pennant
- Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University
- Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Sugata Bose, Harvard University
- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
- Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- C.M. Naim, Professor (Emeritus), University of Chicago
- Lawrence Cohen, University of California Berkeley
- Martha Ann Selby, The University of Texas at Austin
- Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
- Purnima Dhavan University of Washington
- Thomas N. Patton, City University of Hong Kong
- Nandini Sundar, Delhi University
- Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Cecilia Van Hollen, Yale-NUS
- Prof. Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin.
- Rohit Azad, JNU
- G. Arunima, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth
- Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University
- Jack Meng-Tat Chia, National University of Singapore
- Lars P. Laamann, SOAS, University of London
- Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University
- Nalini Iyer, Seattle University
- Indrani Chatterjee, History, UT Austin
- Jens Lerche, SOAS University of London
- Farhana Ibrahim, New Delhi
- Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
- Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen
- Nandini Deo, Associate Professor Lehigh University
- Shikha Jhingan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Ira Bhaskar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- Ravikant, CSDS
- Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, (retd.) Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC)
- Jerome Keating, National Taipei University
- Rahul Mukherji, Heidelberg University
- Nosheen Ali, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
- Khola Cheema, University of Lahore
- Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
- Ritty Lukose
- Dia Da Costa, University of Alberta
- Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham
- Rushaan Kumar, Colorado College
- Berenice Guyot-Rechard, KCL
- Manuela Ciotti, Aarhus University
- Mira Mohsini, University of Akron
- Sinjini Mukherjee, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
- Priyanka Basu, The British Library London
- Sarwat Viqar – John Abbott College, Montreal
- Isa Rodriguez-Soto, Assistant Professor, University of Akron
- Jhuma Sen, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Neepa Majumdar
- Saiba Varma, University of California, San Diego
- Meher Varma
- Ashvin R. Kini (Florida Atlantic University)
- Deepti Misri, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
- Meghna Chaudhuri, New York University
- Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
- Asli Zengin, Harvard UniversityChika Watanabe, University of Manchester
- Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University
- Namita Dharia, Rhode Island School of Design
- Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore
- Daena Funahashi, Aarhus University
- Ja Ian Chong, NUS
- Faizah Zakaria, Nanyang Technological University
- Neilesh Bose
- Ari Heinrich, UCSD
- Hoang Tan Nguyen, Associate Professor of Literature, University of California – San Diego
- Radhika Govindrajan, University of Washington
- Nayanika Mathur, Oxford University
- Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University
- Tamara Sears, Rutgers University
- Emma Varley, Associate Professor (Brandon University, Canada)
- Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Adrian De Leon, University of Toronto
- Chun-Chi Wang, English Dept., National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
- Bindu Menon
- Alexander M. Cannon, University of Birmingham
- Sarah Hilaly Rajiv Gandhi University
- Sarah G Grant, California State University, Fullerton
- Samyak Ghosh, Columbia University
- Todd A Henry, UCSD
- Neha Vora, Associate Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College
- Paul Roquet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- J. Keith Vincent, Boston University
- Maud Lavin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Sohini Kar, LSE
- Nada Al-Hudaid, University of Manchester
- Ryan Cook, Emory Univer sity
- Stephen Poland, Yale University
- Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced
- Andrew Leong, Northwestern
- Kevin W. Fogg, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Faculty of History, University of Oxford
- Katyayani Dalmia, The New School for Social Research
- Sheheryar B. Sheikh
- Jerry Zee, University of California – Santa Cruz
- Aya Homei, University of Manchester
- Jasdeep Singh, Independent Researcher and Translator
- Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Brian Bergstrom, McGill University
- Linda Hess, Stanford University
- Jawan Shir Rasikh, University of Pennsylvania
- Soomin Seo, Temple University
- Rachel Berger, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
- Shana Brown, University of Hawai’i
- Daniel C. Kane, Pacific Affairs
- Afzal Ahmad Khan, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
- Bharati Jagannathan, Miranda House, Delhi University
- E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University
- Chenshu Zhou, Stanford University
- Jae Won Chung, University of Colorado Boulder
- Alexandre Da Costa, University of Alberta
- Yukiko Hanawa, New York University
- Judd C. Kinzley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Dohee Kang, Georgetown University
- Swapna Banerjee, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
- Ravinder Kaur , University of Copenhagen
- Grace Ting, Oberlin College
- Maggie Clinton, Middlebury College
- Hasan Ashraf, Jahangirnagar University
- Nimanthi Rajasingham, Colgate University
- Gavin Walker, McGill University
- Clara Iwasaki, University of Alberta
- Shreena Niketa Gandhi, Michigan State University
- Vishesh Guru, Ashoka University
- Monika Mehta, Binghamton University
- Rebecca J. Manring, Indiana University
- Mubbashir Rizvi, Georgetown University
- Sameen Ali, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Stefanie Thomas, The Ohio State University
- Aniket De, Harvard University
- Umair Javed, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Yogesh Chandrani, Colorado College
- Akshay Shetty, Young India Fellow (Batch of 2017), Ashoka University
- Nishant Upadhyay, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
- Victor Louzon, Columbia University
- Aniket De, Harvard University
- Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University
- Pedro Iacobelli, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University
- Nitin Govil, University of Southern California
- Amna Qayyum, Princeton University
- Dr. Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick, UK
- Tiraana Bains, Yale University
- Ling Zhang, Boston College
- Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick
- Anupama Kapse Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
- Shampa Biswas, Whitman College
- Tariq Rahman, University of California, Irvine
- Christine Marrewa Karwoski
- Sabah K: Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch
- Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies, Scripps College
- CJ Kuncheria, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Sudha Tiwari, JNU
- Kartik Nair, Temple University
- Seher Agarwala, Columbia University
- Sohomjit Ray, CUNY-College of Staten Island
- Navyug Gill, William Paterson University
- Dr. Abid Masood, International Islamic University, Islamabad
- Faridah Zaman, University of Chicago
- Lori Morimoto
- Mou Banerjee, Harvard University
- Riday Chokshi, Ashoka University
- Gautham Reddy, University of Chicago
- Rosita Armytage, Durham University
- Deep Vakil, Undergraduate Class of 2020, Ashoka University
- Abhishek Nanavati, Georgetown University
- Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University
- Manpreet Kaur, Columbia University
- Jisha Menon, Stanford University
- Aaron Mirza, OP Jindal Global University
- Aditi Surie von Czechowski, Columbia University
- Muhan Zhang, New York University
- Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
- Paula Chakravartty, NYU
- Kartikeya Bhatotia
- Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
- Varun Venkatesh, University of Ashoka
- Jonathan Graubart San Diego State University
- Mara Thacker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Chris Berry, King’s College London
- Nandana Bose
- Rachael Joo, Middlebury College
- Mosarrap H Khan, Ph.D., New York University
- Zain R. Mian, University of Pennsylvania
- Lien Fan Shen
- Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University
- Naveena Naqvi, University of California Los Angeles
- Lien Fan Shen, University of Utah
- Hentyle Yapp, New York University
- John Chaffee, Binghamton University
- Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University
- Divya Sharma, University of Sussex
- Meher Ali, University of Chicago
- Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University
- Shalmali Jadhav, University of Michigan
- Shaj Mohan, philosopher based in the subcontinent
- Matthew Mosca, University of Washington, Seattle
- Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
- Dwaipayan Banerjee, MIT
- Praskanva Sinharay, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Anwesha Ghosh, University of Toronto
- Tanima, University of Chicago
- Siyen Fei, University of Pennsylvania
- Brian K. Pennington, Elon University
- Aditya Joshi, Ashoka University
- Clare Talwalker, University of California-Berkeley
- Jyoti Shankar Nayak, Ashoka University
- Sara Grewal, MacEwan University
- Jodi Weinstein, The College of New Jersey, USA
- Alex Chen, University of Pennsylvania
- Uday Chandra ,Georgetown University, Qatar
- Peter Bol, Harvard University
- Medha, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- Susan Thomas, Syracuse University
- Amir Theilhaber, TU Berlin
- Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania
- Ute Huesken, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
- Jane Park, University of Sydney
- Furrukh Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Steven Vose, Florida International University
- Aditi Saraf, Ludwig-Maximilians University
- Nerissa Balce, SUNY Stony Brook
- Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University
- Devika Shankar, Princeton University
- Minh-Ha T. Pham, Pratt Institute
- Earl Jackson, University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeritus
- Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS, University of London
- Annu Jalais, National University of Singapore
- Fozia Parveen, university of Oxford
- Sahar Shafqat, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
- Megan Robb, University of Pennsylvania
- Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University
- Madhusudan Rimal, University of Alberta
- Subir Sinha, SOAS
- Nausheen H Anwar, IBA, Karachi, Pakistan
- Meeta Rani Jha, University of California, Berkeley
- Sareeta Amrute, University of Washington, Seattle
- Mohammad Azhar Wani, Ashoka University
- Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
- Maria Mustafa , Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad
- Jamie Jungmin Yoo, Korea University
- Bia Alina Ehtesham, Institute of Business Administration
- Mark Balmforth, Columbia University
- Reece Jones University of Hawai’i
- Monica Kim, New York University
- Shaista Patel, University of Toronto
- Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Teresa Segura-Garcia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- David Ambaras, North Carolina State University
- Tommy Tran, University of California at Los Angeles
- Aftab S. Jassal, Colgate University
- Nishaant Choksi, Kyoto University
- Satoshi Mizutani, Doshisha University
- S. Charusheela, University of Washington, Bothell
- Jatin Dua, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado Boulder
- Chuck Wooldridge, Lehman College, CUNY
- Luis Mah, Universidade de Lisboa
- Akila Ranganathan, Ashoka University
- William Dunkel, University of California; Irvine
- Tsaiman Ho, Chung Yuan Christian University
- Ameem Lutfi, Duke Univeristy
- Sakhi Upadhyaya, Ashoka University
- Prabha Shankar, Technische Universität München
- Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed, Princeton University
- Doreen Lee, Northeastern University
- Kwang Woo Noh, Korea University
- Jong-sung You, Australian National University
- Fatima Zuberi, Hong Kong University
- Jeremy Yellen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University
- Nidhi Mahajan, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Amulya Mandava, Harvard University
- Theresa Wong, Singapore
- Divya Cherian, Princeton University
- Naeem Ahmed, alum University of Pennsylvania, Bowdoin College.
- Nazia Hashmi, University of Pennsylvania
- Rachmi Diyah Larasati, University of MInnesota, Minneapolis
- Aftab Ahmad, Columbia University
- Sayaka Chatani, NUS
- Sheetal Chhabria, Connecticut College
- Jun Kai Pow, Singapore Institute of Management
- Aaron Gerow, Yale University
- Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto
- Aditya Ramesh, SOAS
- Siddhant Agarwal, Northwestern University.
- Sean Dowdy, University of Chicago
- Alvin K. Wong, Yonsei University
- Sachin Bhatia, Ashoka University
- Mehr Afshan Farooqi, University of Virginia
- Huma Dar, University of California, Berkeley
- Parika Verma, University of Adelaide
- Mikaeel Faisal Nisar, Sabanci University
- Zoha Kazmi, University of Adelaide
- Karthik Shankar, Ashoka University
- So-Rim Lee, Stanford University
- Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College
- Sayumi Takahashi Harb, Independent Scholar
- Ishaan Bansal, Ashoka University
- Hyemin Han, University of Alabama
- Jisoo Kim, George Washington University
- Asmita Paul, Ashoka University
- Mekhola Gomes, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
- Ramya Maddali, alumna, Ashoka University
- Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced
- Wolfram Dressler, Melbourne University
- Pingtjin Thum, University of Oxford
- Utathya C, University of Illinois
- Manav Kapur, Princeton University
- Ishan Mehandru, Ashoka University
- Tara M. Rai, Ashoka University.
- Shristi Goswami, Ashoka University
- Matt Barlow, University of Adelaide
- Nirmal John, OP Jindal Global University ( Batch of 2017)
- Boudewijn Walraven, Sungkyunkwan University
- Aastha Ahuja, Ashoka University
- Amritha Perumalla, University of Frankfurt
- Desmond Sham, National University of Singapore
- Esha Bafna, Ashoka University
- Rashmi Gottumukkala, Ashoka University
- Suryanandini Narain, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Neeti Nayak
- Guo-Quan Seng, National University of Singapore
- Juno Salazar Parreñas, Ohio State University
- Ilsa Razzak, IBA, Karachi, Pakistan
- Zeerak Ahmed, Harvard University
- Kartikeya Bhatotia, Ashoka University
- Kasia Paprocki, LSE
- David L. Curley, Emeritus, Western Washington University
- Surya HK, Young India Fellow, Ashoka University
- Heeryoon Shin, Vanderbilt University
- Varuni Bhatia, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
- Punyapriya Dasgupta, veteran journalist, India
- Shakthi Nataraj, University of California, Berkeley
- Surjodeb Basu
- Aakash Solanki, University of Toronto
- Alessandra Mezzadri, SOAS Development Studies, London
- Gulnaz Anjum, IBA Karachi, Pakistan
- Ankur Naik, Ashoka University
- Vernica Gupta, Ashoka University
- Ishita Bhatia, Ashoka University
- Bhavya Dugar, Ashoka University
- Razak Khan, Göttingen University
- Oishik Sircar, Jindal Global Law School
- Gilbert Achcar, SOAS University of London
- Nivedita Joon, Ashoka University
- Barbara Wall, u of Copenhagen
- Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth, University of the Witwatersrand
- Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London
- Ritam Sengupta, CSSSC
- Ben Rogaly, University of Susses
- Uzair Ibrahim, graduate student, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Ying-kit Chan, Princeton University
- Nathaniel Roberts, University of Göttingen
- Sara Abraham, formerly University of Toronto
- Pradip Kumar Datta, JNU
- Zavain Dar, Stanford
- Richard Mead, SOAS, (retired)
- Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading
- Indira Bulhan, Ashoka University
- Malika Shah, UCL
- Saptarshi Basak – Ashoka Univeristy
- Rohit De, Yale University
- John Faulkner, SOAS University of London
- Rupa Viswanath, University of Goettingen
- Sohini Dutta, IIT Bombay
- Shreya Sinha, SOAS
- Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, IIT Delhi
- Susan Harris, IIT Delhi
- Jyotirmay Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Tom Hoogervorst, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
- Mark Elliott, Harvard University
- Niyati Shenoy, Columbia University
- Nishtha Sood
- Vanja Hamzić, SOAS University of London
- Debojit Thakur, DFG-Leibniz Research Centre, University of Trier
- Samarth Mahajan, Independent Filmmaker
- Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University Qatar
- Pallavi Roy, SOAS, University of London
- Akta Kaushal, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
- Debojit Thakur, DFG-Leibniz Research Centre, University of Trier
- Neeti Nair, University of Virginia
- Ishan Santra, Jadavpur University
- Shinjini Das, University of Oxford
- Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh
- Feyzi Ismail, SOAS University of London
- Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University
- Shehnaz Bhutto
- Ila Deep, Ashoka University
- Amiera Sawas, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Satya P Mohanty, Professor, Cornell University, USA
- Harsh Verma, University of Delhi
- Mohammad Hamza Farooqui, Ashoka University
- Avinash Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
- Puja Rani, Gargi College, DU
- Saadia Baqa BPharm university of karachi
- Samuel Perry, Brown University
- Sourav Ghosh, University of California, Berkeley
- Azra Talat Sayeed, Roots for Equity, Pakistan
- Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
- Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
- Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University, USA
- Ken MacDonald, University of Toronto
- Matthew Nelson, SOAS, University of London
- Nida Rehman, University of Cambridge
- Barbara Pizziconi, SOAS, University of London
- Lauren Wilks, University of Edinburgh
- Amina Yaqin, SOAS, University of London
- Mana Kia, Columbia University
- Will Glover, University of Michigan
- Titas De Sarkar, University of Chicago
- Richard Williams, SOAS University of London
- Carola Lorea, IIAS Leiden
- Nemisha Kawaatra, University of Delhi
- Ayush Pant, University of Warwick
- Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley
- Asma Kazmi, University of California, Berkeley
- Abhishek Kaicker, UC Berkeley
- Neeti Nair, University of Virginia
- Swati Birla, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Saadia Toor, City University of New York
- Dharitri Bhattacharjee
- Ojas, Ashoka University
- Carla Petievich, University of Texas at Austin
- Matthew Shutzer, New York University
- Shivani Kasumra, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Fatima Quraishi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- Rishika S – Creative Director Vice Arabia
- Simanti Lahiri, Villanova University
- Uday Vir Gary, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Anurag Advani, University of California, Berkeley
- Tim Pringle, Soas
- Yasir Husain, organicity.pk
- Wenqing Kang, Cleveland State University
- Mirela David, University of Saskatchewan
- Giitanjali, Student, Delhi University
- Lalita Khurana, International School of Belgrade
- Michael Jin, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Jayati Maity, Junior Research Fellow, University of Calcutta
- Aaradhya Sharma, India
- Samved Rajvanshi, Student
- Jayant Bakshi, DPS Mathura Road
- Ramish Mushkoh, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Vipin Krishna, UCLA
- Pranab Bardhan, University of California at Berkeley
- Silpa Mukherjee, University of Pittsburgh
- Arundhati Chauhan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Vibha Hegde, SDM
- Michaela von Paumgartten
- Vito Laterza, University of Oslo
- Peidong Sun, Fudan University
- Robert Goldman, University of California, Berkeley
- Praveen Vijayakumar, P.h.D, University of Pennsylvania
- Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Steven Lee, University of British Columbia
- Vera Jelinkova, Institute of South and Central Asia, Charles University in Prague
- Sharad Chari, University of California, Berkeley
- Usha Iyer, Stanford University
- Ayesha Omer, New York University
- Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
- Tani Barlow, Rice University
- Meheli Sen, Rutgers University
- Youngoh Jung, University of California San Diego
- Tereza Kuldova, University of Oslo
- Madiha Aijaz, Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture
- Bharat Venkat, University of Oregon
- Rochisha Narayan, University of Cincinnati
- Karen Leonard, University of California, Irvine
- Anne Waldrop, Oslo Metropolitan University
- Angela Chiu, Independent Researcher
- Seung-Hee Jeon, Boston College
- Ria Gyawali, Columbia University
- Kamala Visweswaran, University of California, San Diego
- Michael Fabinyi, University of Technology Sydney
- Nikhil Pandhi, Princeton University
- Eli Elinoff, Victoria University of Wellington
- Nhung Tuyet Tran, University of Toronto
- Kalpana Kannabiran. Council for Social Development, Hyderabad
- Songyeol Han, Princeton University
- Sabeena Gadihoke Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi
- Rajesh Dev, University of Delhi
- Schneur Newfield, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Judy Battaglia, Loyola Marymount University
- Yousuf Saeed, researcher, filmmaker, New Delhi
- Amra Ali, Art critic , Karachi
- Ali Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Nina Horisaki-Christens, Columbia University
- Hassan Javid, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Mehak Sawhney, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi
- nyamat bindra
- Nida Kirmani, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore
- Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Manjula.V, Bangalore University
- Sarah Suhail, Information Technology University
- Tulika Bathija, Secondary English Teacher, Nagoya International School, Nagoya, Japan
- Shayan Rajani, Tufts University
- Sanjukta Sunderason, Leiden University
- Serena Umer Khan
- Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
- Ashfaq U. Rehman, Women University Swabi Pakistan
- Osama Siddique, IDEAS & LPRN (Pakistan) & IGLP (Harvard Law School)
- Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape
- Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster
- Kalpana Wilson, Birkbeck, University of London
- Alexios Tsigkas, The New School
- Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
- Manjari Sahay, alumna, Ashoka University
- Megnaa Mehtta, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Amen Jaffer, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Cordis Paldano, Indianostrum Théâtre
- Tanuja Kothiyal, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Camille Buat, Sciences Po Paris
- Iftikhar ahmed , buitems university Pakistan
- Saumyashree Ghosh, Princeton University
- Muhammad tayyab, university of lahore
- Sharmadip Basu, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
- Muhammad Azfar Nisar, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Ayesha Masood, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Palashi Vaghela, Cornell University
- Courtney Work, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
- Malini Sur, Western Sydney University
- Bandana Purkayastha university of Connecticut
- DC Lammerts, Rutgers University
- Dr Vikas Bajpai, Assistant Professor, Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Helen McCarthy, independent scholar
- Karen S. Farrell, Indiana University
- Mrinal Kaul, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities
- David Rudner, University of California, Los Angeles
- Nikolaus Gerold, University of Melbourne
- Oeendrila Lahiri
- Vijayanka Nair, The New School for Social Research
- Kristin Vekasi, University of Maine
- Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University
- Brian Ruh, Independent Scholar
- Devin Fitzgerald, Harvard University
- Natasha Raheja, New York University
- Elizabeth Hull, SOAS University of London
- Jenn Ortegren, Middlebury College
- Alka Tyagi, University of Delhi
- Matteen Rafiqi, Bezmialem University Istanbul.
- Karin Shankar, Pratt Institute
- Satyasikha Chakraborty, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Lilly Irani, UC San Diego
- Simona Sawhney, IIT Delhi
- Gianni Pellegrini (University of Turin)
- Shahnaz Rouse, Sarah Lawrence College
- Nida Hasan, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Khushan Shahad, LUMS
- Azadeh Ehsani Chombeli, Concordia University
- Pippa Virdee, De Montfort University
- Noman Baig, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.
- Amina Jamal, Ryerson University Canada
- Neelum Sohail, Tufts University
- Amrita Ibrahim, Georgetown University
- Shabana Mir, American Islamic College, Chicago, USA
- Eleanor Nesbitt, University of Warwick
- Maaz Bin Bilal, OP Jindal Global University
- Shayan Momin, New York University
- Caroline Bennett, Victoria University of Wellington
- Virinder Kalra, Warwick University
- Sana Shoaib, University of the Punjab
- Mara Matta, Sapienza University of Rome
- Rizwan Ahmad, IAS, University of the Punjab, Lahore
- Pragya Narang, Independent Researcher on India-Pakistan Peace
- Ritam Das, Student, Presidency University, Kolkata
- Margaret Tillman
- Clare Wilkinson, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, USA
- Mitch Fraas, University of Pennsylvania
- Sriram Mohan, University of Michigan
- Evelyn Shih, University of California, Berkeley
- Arnab Chakraborty, University of York
- Nirmala V, Primary school teacher, Kerala
- Malini Sur, Western Sydney University
- Devika Mittal, Delhi University
- Swarna Rajagopalan, Independent Scholar, Chennai
- Nidhi Srinivas, The New School
- Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago
- Rakshat Hooja, Universe of Learning
- Vartika Neeraj, Ashoka University
- Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney
- Maira Hayat, University of Chicago
- Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Lisa Björkman, University of Louisville
- Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi
- Homayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies
- Adnan Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
- Sumita Chatterjee, University of Miami
- Swagato Sarkar, OP Jindal Global University
- Rune Bennike, University of Copenhagen
- Jieun Kim, Freie Universität Berlin
- Hira Nabi, independent filmmaker
- Dwaipayan Sen, Amherst College
- Rina Ramdev, Venkateswa College, Delhi University
- Ali Usman Qasmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
- Farwa Sial SOAS
- Anil Singhal, Tripura Institute of Technology
- Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont
- Uttara Shahani, University of Cambridge
- Mona Bhan, DePauw University
- Neshat Quaiser, formerly of JMI, Delhi
- Leandro Vergara-Camus, SOAS University of London
- Navtej Johar, Ashoka University
- Sarah Gandee, University of Leeds
- Hadi Enayat, Aga Khan University, London
- Aradhana Anu Sharma, Wesleyan University
- Madhusudan Katti, North Carolina State University
- David Lelyveld, Professor (retired), William Paterson University
- K.N.Sunandan, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
- Phi-Vân Nguyen, Université de Saint-Boniface
- Francis Cody, University of Toronto
- Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, UK
- Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay (PhD student), North Carolina State University
- David H. Price, Saint Martin’s University
- Anwesha Sengupta, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
- Medha, Ashoka University
- Bernhard Leitner, University of Vienna
- Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University
- Ashok Swain, Professor, Uppsala University
- Subhadeepta Ray, Tezpur University
- Majed Akhter, King’s College London
- Shandana Khan Mohmand, IDS, University of Sussex
- Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
- Penny Vera-Sanso, Birkbeck
- Mustafa Khan SOAS University of London
- Miguel Loureiro, IDS, University of Sussex
- Snehal Shingavi, English, University of Texas, Austin
- Jamal J Elias, University of Pennsylvania
- Sayan Bhattacharya, University of Minnesota
- Rachel Sturman, Bowdoin College
- Ahmed Shamim, University of Texas at Austin
- Diditi Mitra, Assistant Professor, Brookdale Community College
- Eunsook Jung, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Neena Mahadev, Yale-NUS College
- Amelia Bonea, University of Heidelberg
- Nandini Sen Delhi University
- Mazhar Abbas, Shanghai University
- Jayati Lal, Syracuse University
- Sikandar Kumar, University of Michigan
- Rajshree Chandra, Delhi University
- Shivani Kapoor, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Bobby Luthra Sinha, Independent Social Scientist
- Lia Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora/ Universidad de Palermo
- Jason Cons, South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin