Mona Bhan

Indian cultural anthropologist

Mona Bhan is the Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and associate professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. At Maxwell school, she is the senior research associate at the South Asia Center and serves as the director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.2

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Born 1975.1

About

Her extensive research work on Ladakh on questions of identity, development, militarization, and counterinsurgency has been published in numerous journals such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Sociological Bulletin, Contemporary South Asia, and Cultural Anthropology. Her book on Ladakh entitled Counterinsurgency, Democracy and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? was published by Routledge in September 2013. She has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Kashmir, focusing on the relationship between violence, counterinsurgency, and environmental activism. Her current project examines the politics and contestations over water between India and Pakistan.

She previously worked at DePauw University, teaching courses on Wars and Militarism, Anthropology of Development, Ethnography of Gender in South Asia, Cosmopolitanism, and Environmental Anthropology.

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Early life and education

  • 2006Rutgers University Doctor of Philosophy3 4

Career

Occupation: cultural anthropologist, university teacher, anthropologist.6

  • Date not recordedWorked at DePauw University5
  • Date not recordedProfessor, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, chief scientific officer, research associate, Syracuse University4 5

Personal life

  • Born1975, Srinagar7
  • CitizenshipIndia8

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