Farina Mir
Farina Mir is a historian and a professor at the University of Michigan. She has a keen interest in the history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India.
Education
In 1993, Mir received her B.A. in English literature and Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures from Barnard College and in 2002, she received her Ph.D. in History with distinction from Columbia University.Notable works
- Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, ed. Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir..
- Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.3, July, 2006: 727–758.
Awards
- John F. [Richard Prize] in South Asian History from the American Historical Association
- Bernard [Cohn Prize] from the Association of Asian Studies