Author and former Central College professor Cynthia Mahmood will visit campus as the Frank Moore Visiting Anthropologist-in-Residence March 10-13, teaching classes, meeting with students and faculty and presenting a lecture.
Currently associate professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, Mahmood is an expert on India, especially religious motivations for militancy and the anthropology of violence, war and peace, terrorism, guerilla warfare and language and culture. She has published a number of works, including the ethnography “Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants.”
Decades of research on the international Sikh community have made Mahmood an expert on the movement for statehood, human rights in Punjab and Sikh religious issues. Her research also focuses on the conflict in Kashmir, including wider interest in the Islamic world since Sept. 11, 2001.
The highlight of Mahmood’s visit will be her lecture “Religion and Conflict Resolution: Taking the Risk of the Face-to-Face” at 7 p.m. March 11 in Cox-Snow Recital Hall.
In addition to associate professor of anthropology, Mahmood is a fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a fellow of Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at University of Notre Dame.
