Chad Haines Curriculum Vitae
August 2013
Curriculum Vitae
CHAD HAINES
Mailing Address
SHPRS, Coor Hall, PO Box 874302, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Ph.: (480) 727-4042; Email:
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies (Joint appointment in Global Studies) August 2012
Arizona State University
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy Anthropology (Social) May 2000
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisors: Anatoly Khazanov, Neil Whitehead, Katherine Bowie
Minor Field: South Asian Studies
Dissertation
Re-Routing/Rooting the Nation-State: The Karakoram Highway and the
Making of the Northern Areas of Pakistan
Master of Arts Anthropology December 1995
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Arts South Asian Studies May 1992
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Arts Asian Studies June 1986
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Participated in 9-month Pacific-Rim Study Abroad Program (1984-1985)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Tenure-Track Appointments
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
American University in Cairo September 2004-December 2008
Academic Appointments
Assistant Research Professor, Center for the Study of Religion & Conflict August 2011-August 2012
Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar, Center for Civilizational Dialogue June 2011
University of Malaysia
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict August 2010-June 2011
Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar, North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies January 2010-June 2010
Duke University
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow
U.S. Education Foundation in Pakistan January 2009-June 2009
Research Associate
University Center for International Studies, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill September 2000-March 2004
Lectureships
Arizona State University
Religious Studies August 2010-May 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Curriculum in Asian Studies Spring 2004
Department of Anthropology January 2001-June 2004
Duke University
Department of Religion Fall 1999-Fall 2000
North Carolina State University
Department of Philosophy and Religion Spring 2000
Department of Anthropology Fall 1999
Hamline University
Department of Religion Spring 1999
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Nation, Territory and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (Routledge Press, 2012).
Co-editor with Yasmin Saikia, Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency, and Influence. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014 (forthcoming, 2014).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Dialogical Din and Everyday Acts of Peace: An Islamic Perspective,” in Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency, and Influence. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, editors. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014 (forthcoming).
Co-author with Yasmin Saikia, “Introduction: Situating Peace, Islam, and Women in the Everyday,” in Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency, and Influence. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, editors. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014 (forthcoming).
“Islam in Pakistan: A Review Essay,” Contemporary Islam (online version). February 2013.
“Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai,” in Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, ed. by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (Blackwell, 2011).
“Remapping Pakistan’s Liminal Geo-Body along the Silk Route,” in New Approaches to Pakistan. Saeed Shafqat, editor. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Colonial Routes: Reorienting the Northern Frontier of British India,” Ethnohistory 51:3 (2004), pp. 135-65.
“Islam and the Imagining of the New World Order” Hamline Review 25 (Spring 1999); pp. 25-37.
“Traversing the Karakorams: Routes and Socio-Cultural Development in Gilgit” in People of the Himalayas: Ecology, Culture, Development and Change. K.C. Mahanta, editor. New Delhi: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 1997.
Under Preparation
Being Muslim, Being Global: Traces of Muslim Modernities in Dubai, Islamabad and Cairo (book manuscript based on ongoing research, manuscript currently being developed).
The Pakistan Reader, co-editor with Furrukh Khan & Yasmin Saikia (commissioned by Duke University Press, to be submitted, winter 2014).
“Spaces of Inequality: Mapping Islam and Power on the Streets of Islamabad” (under preparation, for submission to City and Society).
SCHOLARLY PAPERS, CONFERENCES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Selected Conferences and Invited Papers (2003-2013)
“Seeking Human Connections in Global Disjunctures: Fieldnotes from Across the Muslim World”; Distinguished Lecture, Department of Social Sciences, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani; May 14, 2013.
“Reading Muslim: Towards a Dialogical Approach to Translation Studies”; Invited paper for the 3rd Baghdad International Translation Conference; Iraq, Baghdad, May 7, 2013.
“Traces of Muslim Modernities in Dubai, Cairo, and Islamabad”; Distinguished Lecture, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology, American University in Cairo; February 11, 2013.
“From Tahrir Square to Aabpara Market: Towards a Spatiality of Everyday Ethics,” Being Muslim in the World: Everyday Ethics and Cultures of Adab International Conference, May 23-24, 2012, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Dubai and Islamabad: In Search of an Islamic Modernity,” International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, July 4, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“Islam and the West: Challenges of Liberal Normativity,” Perspectives on Islam and the West: The Need for Cultivating Moderate Outlooks, Center for Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya and Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Government of Malaysia, June 16, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“‘Jihad’ and Dialogical Din: Challenges to Western Liberal Normativity,” Islam, Women and Peacebuilding International Conference, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, March 10, 2011, ASU.
Discussant, “Revolution 2.0: Social Media and Political Changes in Egypt and Beyond,” presented by Merlyna Lim, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, March 29, 2011, ASU.
Panel Discussant, “Ethnographic Pasts and Historical Present: Towards a Vernacular History of Pakistan,” 38th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 23, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin.
“Through the Looking Glass: India’s Global Nationalism Refracted in Dubai,” 38th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 23, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin.
“The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Again?” Islamic International University forum The Clash of Civilizations: Remembering Samuel Huntington, February 19, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Islam/abad Reimagined: Neoliberal Traces and Global Dreams in a Modernist City,” Pakistan Council of Social Sciences, May 29, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Do Cities Have Value?: Dubai, Islamabad and the Struggle for a Muslim Modernity,” Pakistan Study Center, Punjab University, April 14, 2009, Lahore, Pakistan.
“New Cairo: ‘Gulfis’ and Neoliberal Landscapes of Pleasure,” 107th American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 19-23, 2008, San Francisco, CA.
“Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Gurgaon and Dubai,” SSRC International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections, February 21-24, 2008, Dubai, UAE.
“Routes of Penury: Development and Hope along the Karakoram Highway,” Poverty, Inequality and the State in South Asia International Workshop, Center for South Asia Studies, January 11-13, 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill.
“Dubai’ed: Cartographies of Desire and Dissatisfaction in a Global City,” 106th American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 27-December 2, 2007, Washington, DC.
Respondent, “Indigenous Road to Development: Self Determination vs. Right to Culture” distinguished lecture by Karen Engle, Law and Development Today Conference, May 27, 2006, American University in Cairo.
“Leaks, Spills, and Stains: Nation-State Formation and the Transnational Imaginaire,” 11th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, March 23-25, 2006, Columbia University, New York.
“The Road from Shangri La to Nowhere: Preliminary Thoughts on Sectarianism in the Northern Areas,” Pakistan Studies Group 19th Annual Workshop, May 6-8, 2005, Lake District, U.K.
“Remapping Pakistan’s Liminal Geo-Body along the Silk Route,” International Pakistan Studies Conference, April 12-13, 2003, Columbia University, New York.
Academic Conferences, Workshops, & Seminars Organized
“Beyond Tolerance: Pluralism’s History in Islam,” Research Seminar, Arizona State University’s Institute of Humanities Research, co-coordinator, August 2012-May 2013.
“Being Muslim in the World: Everyday Ethics and Cultures of Adab,” International Conference, organizer and presenter, May 23-24, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Global Dialogue on the Advancement of Humanities in Higher Education,” organizer, coordinator, and presenter of workshop, January 2, 2012, Lahore, Pakistan.
“Islamic Perspectives on the Humanities,” organizer and presenter, International Islamic University Faculty Seminar, December 30, 2011, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Imaginaries of Islamic Modernity,” organizer, Research Seminar, Arizona State University’s Institute of Humanities Research, co-coordinator, August 2011-May 2012.
“The Arab Street Speaks: Faculty Forum on the Egyptian Uprising,” organizer and presenter, Islamic Studies Research Alliance, ASU, February 10, 2011, Tempe, Arizona.
“Media, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War: Perceptions and Perspectives in the U.S. and Arab Media,” organizer, UCIS International Forum, November 8th-9th, 2003, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (brought together journalists from the Middle East, Europe, and North America).
“Seeing Behind Stereotypes and the Veils of Anger: Understanding Islam,” organizer, UCIS Forum, September 19, 2001, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Selected Seminars and Public Presentations
“The Arab Spring: Rethinking the Muslim World Today,” Kaffee Klatsch, public presentation, Friendship Village, November 12, 2012, Tempe, Arizona.
“The Muslim World, Global Connectivity, and Human Dignity,” President’s Community Enrichment Programs, ASU, February 2012, Tempe, Arizona.
“Everyday Anthropology: Dialogues for Peace,” Sanjoy Ghosh Memorial Peace Lecture, Thar Desert Resource Center, December 11, 2011, Bikaner, India.
“The Muslim World, Global Connectivity, and Human Dignity,” McDonald Lecture Series, United Church of Angel Fire, August 8-10, 2011, Angel Fire, New Mexico.
“Making Sense of the Revolts of the Middle East through the Prism of Liberation Square, Cairo,” Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations, April 19, 2011, Phoenix, Arizona.
“The Day the Pharaoh Fell: Panel Discussion on the Egyptian Revolution,” Barrett Honors College, ASU, February 23, 2011, Tempe, Arizona.
“Afghanistan: States of Indeterminacy,” Conversations at the Center, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, ASU, November 8, 2010, Tempe, Arizona.
“Good American/Bad American: Questioning U.S. Imperialism under Obama,” Area Study Center, Quaid-e-Azam University, June 24, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
“Locating Transnationalism: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” coordinator and presenter of a monthly seminar series, American University in Cairo, September 2005-May 2006.
“Faith Uprooted: Making Sense of the Rise of the Taliban,” UCIS Seminar on Religion and State in the Muslim World, January 30, 2002, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Kashmir and the Failures of the Nation-State,” Exploris Museum, February 14, 2002, Raleigh, North Carolina.
“The Taliban, Jihad, and the Politics of Islam,” United Nations Association Triangle Chapter meeting, November 28, 2001, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Media Interviews
Arizona Republic, “Respond to Attacks with Caution, Valley Experts Say,” September 12, 2012.
Dawn Newspaper, “The Great Land Robbery,” August 1, 2012, Pakistan.
McMahon Group, Chanel 7, “Special Program on US Relations with the Muslim World,” May 24, 2011.
Fox 10 Newsmaker Sunday, “U.S-Pakistan Relations,” May 15, 2011.
McMahon Group, KTAR Radio, “US Relations with the Changing Muslim World,” May 6, 2011.
McMahon Group, Chanel 7 TV, “Bin Laden’s Killing and US-Pakistan Relations,” May 4, 2011.
Fox 10 Nightly News, “Pakistan: Friend or Foe to the U.S.?” May 3, 2011.
AZTV Chanel 3 Nightly News, “Will Downfall of Arab Autocrats Actually Keep America Safe?” March 4, 2011.
National Public Radio, Morning Edition, “Economic Crisis Dampens Gulf Building Boom,” November 25, 2008.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS & PROGRAM GRANTS
Research Fellowships
Pakistan Higher Education Commission, Senior Visiting Scholar to Pakistan, Spring 2014.
Wilcox Faculty Research Award, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, ASU, “Being Muslim, Being Global: Traces of Islamic Modernities in Dubai, Islamabad, and Cairo;” Winter/Spring 2013.
Institute of Humanities Research, ASU, Research Cluster on “Beyond Tolerance: Pluralism’s History in Islam,” Co-Coordinator, 2012-2013.
Institute of Humanities Research, ASU, Research Cluster on “Imaginaries of Islamic Modernity,” Co-coordinator, 2011-2012.
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, US Education Foundation in Pakistan; “Landscapes of a ‘Muslim Modernity:’ Islamabad and the Reimagining of a Pakistani Muslim Identity”; Spring 2009.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, American Institute of Pakistan Studies; “Laboring in ‘Paradise’: Discipline, Desire and Diasporic Pakistanis in Dubai;” Spring 2007.
Faculty Research Grant, American University in Cairo; to initiate research on “Laboring in ‘Paradise’: Discipline, Desire and Diasporic Pakistanis in Dubai;” January 2006.
Faculty Research Grant, American University in Cairo; to initiate research on “Outsourcing Sex: Call Centers and the Mapping of Sexual Identities in India;” Summer 2005.
Doctoral Research Fellowship, American Institute of Pakistan Studies; to undertake dissertation field research in Pakistan; January 1997 - November 1997.
International Predissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council; for preliminary dissertation field research and Urdu language studies in the United States and Pakistan; June 1994 - June 1995.
Institutional Grants
“Religio-Political Identities in Muslim Cities: Shifting Dynamics in the Context of Globalization,” Submitted to Minerva Research Program US Department of Defense, Budget: $5,000,000; October 2011; Status: Not Funded.
“Developing Pakistan Studies at ASU,” a proposal developed for support from the Embassy of Pakistan in the United States, December 2011, Budget: $400,000; Status: Suspended, seeking additional funding sources.
“Reimagining Civil Society in a Global Age: The American South in Applied Humanistic Approaches,” Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Program, 2001-2005, $325,000 (UCIS).
“Internationalizing American Studies: Building Partnerships for a Global Perspective,” Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, 2003-2005, $93,685 (UCIS-University of Jordan).
“The Role of the Print Media in Forging Press Freedoms in Jordan and the United States,” Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2004-2005, $126,000 (UCIS-Center for Freedom of Journalists, Amman, Jordan).
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Academic
Vice-Chair, Council of South Asian Studies, Arizona State University, September 2012-continuing.
Project Coordinator, Global Engagement in the Muslim World, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University, August 2011-June 2012.
Co-founder, Islamic Studies Research Alliance, a transdisciplinary effort to advance the intellectual work of ASU’s Islamic Studies faculty.
Graduate Advisor, SAPE Department, American University in Cairo, September 2005-December 2006.
Member, Executive Committee, Cynthia Nelson Institute of Gender and Women Studies, February 2006-December 2008.
Member, Provost’s Research Advisory Council, American University in Cairo, September 2005-2006.
Member, Advisory Board, Prince Al-Awaleed Center for American Studies, American University in Cairo, September 2004-June 2005.
Member, Dean’s Committee on South Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2003-May 2004.
International Development
Research Consultant, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan; Fall 2010.
Founding Coordinator, PACE/Pakistan American Coalition for Education, Continuing.