Vazira Zamindar

Vazira Zamindar is associate professor of history at Brown University, Rhode Island, and her work focuses on decolonization, displacement, war, nonviolence, the visual archive, and contemporary art. She is the author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Columbia University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Love, War, and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2020). She initiated the interdisciplinary forum Art...See more

Vazira Zamindar is associate professor of history at Brown University, Rhode Island, and her work focuses on decolonization, displacement, war, nonviolence, the visual archive, and contemporary art. She is the author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Columbia University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Love, War, and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2020). She initiated the interdisciplinary forum Art History from the South (2018-20) and collaborates with the Decolonial Initiative on Migration of Objects and People at Brown University. See less