Habib University's World-class Faculty

HABIB UNIVERSITY’S

WORLD-CLASS FACULTY

HABIB UNIVERSITY

Redefining Higher Education in Pakistan

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HABIB UNIVERSITY Habib University is a unique endeavor in higher education, born of a vision to strengthen Pakistan; of creating tolerance, mutual respect and an appreciation for diversity in a nation ridden with conflict. Habib University is built on the foundation of Yohsin, which stipulates that the worth of every human being is in the good they do.

It is with this strong backbone of Yohsin, that we aspire to help every student, scholar and member of the HU community realize their true potential. The first of its kind, liberal arts and sciences university, it offers interdisciplinary programs that draws from the fields of science, engineering, arts, humanities and the social sciences. Habib University is dedicated to enriching the lives of its students, and engaging society through teaching, research and service.

Habib University’s mission is to engage outstanding academics with a passion for teaching to work with our students and enrich their minds helping them contribute positively to the larger community, while fostering creativity and academic freedom.

Habib University has been noted and recognized across the world for its commitment to a more dynamic and sophisticated level of undergraduate learning and research, which has led to an exchange of ideas and collaborations with many cutting edge institutions.

The university is in technical and research collaborations with leading institutions around the world, the likes of Harvey Mudd College, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Texas A&M University, Qatar amongst others.

Our community of learners and scholars is diverse, bringing with them a myriad of perspectives and opinions, and fostering an environment dedicated to the nurturing of young minds.

Dr. Naqvi and Dr. Zaidi attending the HU Orientation (2014)

WORLD-CLASS

FACULTY

Habib University engages with renowned academics and researchers from across the world, bringing them on board to teach and engage in intellectual discourse in Pakistan. It is the strength of our academic programs, and teaching pedagogy that draws in a brilliant group of individuals who are passionate about teaching, conducting research, and fostering a learning environment for the campus community.

We are a truly global academic community, hailing from across the world – USA, UK, France, and Germany to name just a few. Our faculty is internationally qualified, having studied and taught at prestigious institutions such as Columbia, Stanford, and Cornell. All faculty hold a terminal degree (Ph.D. or other), in their discipline.

They are widely published in academic journals, and are deeply committed to the ethos of undergraduate research.

Passionate and supportive, Habib University’s faculty is invested in their students’ academic, personal and professional success. As dedicated teachers, respected experts and innovative researchers, they mentor our students, advising them on possible career trajectories, graduate school options, and engaging them in collaborative research projects.

Dr. Anzar Khaliq helping students build an Anemometer in ENERGY I

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (SSE) The School of Science and Engineering (SSE) at Habib University combines liberal arts, science and engineering education to create leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs who will develop novel, indigenous ways to benefit society through the use of technology. Our faculty teaches using interdisciplinary approaches that are vital to create solutions to the complex challenges faced by contemporary societies.

The SSE curricula are developed in consultation with leading international academics taking into account the needs of the industry and will be updated frequently. Emphasis is based on project-based learning that provides a framework to strengthen fundamental concepts, cultivate creativity, teamwork, and communication skills.

Undergraduate research is an integral part of pedagogy at Habib. Facilitated by well-equipped laboratories and research facilities, faculty members work closely with students. Through small class sizes and low student-teacher ratio, students have ample opportunity to engage with their professors and their research activities both within and outside the classroom. The SSE faculty aims to train its students to possess a unique blend of technical competence, breadth of knowledge, awareness of the larger implications of their work, and sensitivity toward local contexts.

The School of Science and Engineering is offering the following degrees: BS Electrical Engineering BS Computer Science

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Dr. Zaidi’s research interests range from renewable energy to indigenous development. He has developed and implemented solutions for metrology, process control, and characterization of semiconductor processes.

• Zaidi, S., Kamal, S.A., Anwer, A., Fatima, S. B., Sheikh, M. S., & Burki, S., “Higher Performance Secure Outer Space Communications At Lower Cost Utilizing Commercial Components”, The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace2013).

• Rehman, Y., Narejo, G. B., and Zaidi, S. “An Experiment for Testing Efficiency of Effective Teaching Model and Comprehensive Use of Limited Resources,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE).

• Zaidi, S., Ali M. S., Nomani, S., Khalid, A.B. and Shamim, F., “Automated Lane Detection for Vehicular Traffic”, IPCV’12 – The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, July 2012.

Lithography; Optical metrology; Semiconductor process engineering; Control semiconductor material analysis

Dr. Zaidi is a fan of the GRATEFUL DEAD (music band)

Dr. Timothy Spracklen

Dr. Shah Jamal Alam

Professor, Physics, SSE

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SSE

Ph.D., in Ionospheric Physics, University of Leicester, UK

Ph.D. in Social Simulation, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Spracklen is passionate about adaptive modulation and forward error correction strategies for future mobile telephone network.

Dr. Alam researches and works on the issues of land use change and climate change adaptation.

Representative Work • Jones, T.B.; Spracklen, C.T.; ‘Ionospheric Effects of the Flixborough Explosion’, Nature, 1974, 250, No. 5469, pp. 719-720.

• European Patent Number PCT/GB2006050237, Spracklen, C.T.; “Wireless Communication System and Method”, Date of Filing 11-08-06, Date of granting 17-03-08.

Area of Focus Hardware compilation algorithms and strategies; Hardware neural networks

Representative Work • Bakker, S.J. Alam, T. Spek, J.van Dijk, M. Rounsevell and A. van den Brink (2015) Exploring the feasibility of realizing an ecological network under conditions of global change, Landscape Ecology, Springer.

• J. Alam, X. Zhang, E.O. Romero-Severson, C.J. Henry, L. Zhong, E.M. Volz. B.G. Brenner and J.S. Koopman (2013) Detectable Signals of Episodic Risk Effects on Acute HIV Transmission: Strategies for Analyzing Transmission Systems Using Genetic Data, Epidemics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 44-55

Area of Focus Social network analysis; Infectious disease transmission; Social anthropology

Did You Know?

Dr. Spracklen is a certified pilot

Did You Know?

Dr. Alam loves gardening

Syeda Saleha Raza

Dr. Oliver Faust

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SSE

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, SSE

Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence) IBA, Pakistan (In Progress)

Ph.D. in Electronics, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Research Interests

Research Interests

Ms. Raza’s research interests range from probabilistic reasoning to machine learning and robotics.

Dr. Faust’s research interests include formal and model-driven biomedical systems design, parallel systems, digital communications, and nonlinear and cognitive signal processing.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• Saleha Raza, On Teaching Collaboration to a Team of Autonomous Agents via Imitation, Short Paper, Doctoral Symposium at 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), - Beijing, 2013, pp.

3237-3238.

• Oliver Faust, U. Rajendra Acharya, Lim Choo Min, and Bernhard H. C. Sputh. “Automatic identification of epileptic and background eeg signals using frequency domain parameters.”

International Journal of Neural Systems, 20(2):159–176, April 2010.

• Saleha Raza, Sajjad Haider, and M.-A. Williams, “Robot Reasoning Using First Order Bayesian Networks,” in Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making, Z. Qin and V.-N. Huynh, Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp.

1–12.

• Oliver Faust, U. Rajendra Acharya, Jianguo Ma, Lim Choo Min, and Toshiyo Tamura. “Compressed sampling for heart rate monitoring.” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, -(-): In press.

Area of Focus Systems engineering; Biomedical signal processing; Formal methods; Embedded systems

Did You Know?

Dr. Faust does Yoga every morning

Dr. Anzar Khaliq

Dr. Jibran Rashid,

Assistant Professor & Director, Integrated Sciences

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SSE

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Khaliq’s research interests include the fabrication of organic/inorganic semiconducting materials, and studying their physical and chemical properties at the interface.

Dr. Rashid’s research deals with the nature of correlations encountered in the physical world and their application in improving our ability to process information. His research attempts to unify our understanding of the limits on quantum behavior using tools from computer science.

Representative Work • Khaliq, D. Pierucci, H. Tissot, J.J. Gallet, F. Bournel, F. Rochet, M. Silly, and F. Sirotti, “Ene-like Reaction of Cyclopentene on Si(001)-2 x 1: An XPS and NEXAFS Study,”The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 116, no. 23, pp.

12680-12686, Jun. 2012.

• J Gallet, F. Bournel, D. Pierucci, M. Bonato, A. Khaliq, F. Rochet, M. Silly, and F. Sirotti, “A Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy Study of n-Propyltriethoxysilane Adsorption on Si(001)-2 x 1 at Room Temperature,”J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 114, pp.

21450-21456, 2010

• Jibran Rashid and Abuzer Yakaryılmaz, Can We Build Quantum Finite Automata?, Quantum Information Processing, Barcelona, 7 February 2014.

• Peter Høyer and Jibran Rashid, Quantum Nonlocal Boxes Exhibit Stronger Distillability, Modern Physics Letters A, 28(17):1330012, 2013.

Area of Focus Quantum information and computation; Theoretical computer science; Educational technologies

Area of Focus Nano technology; Growth of semiconducting nanowires; Physics

Representative Work

Did You Know?

Dr. Khaliq worked as a professional radio jockey

Did You Know?

Dr. Rashid is trained in Kendo (fencing)

Dr. Waqar Saleem

Dr. Shahid Shaikh

Assistant Professor & Program Director, Computer Science

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, SSE

Ph.D. in Computer Graphics, Max Planck Institut (MPI) Informatik, Germany

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Saleem’s research addresses the topic of building and querying 3D shape repositories. His research improves on learning-based surface reconstruction from scattered data.

Dr. Shaikh’s research interests range from Information theory to wireless and mobile communication.

Representative Work • W. Saleem, A. Belyaev, D. Wang, and H.-P. Seidel, On Visual Complexity of 3D Shapes, Computers & Graphics, 35(3), pp. 580-585. June 2011. Proceedings of Shape-Modeling International (SMI), 2011 • R.C. Veltkamp, G.J. Giezeman, H. Bast, T. Baumbach, T. Furuya, J. Giesen, A. Godil, Z. Lian, R. Ohbuchi and W. Saleem, SHREC’10 Track: Large Scale Retrieval. Proceedings of the Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval (SHREC) 2010, pp. 63-69

Area of Focus Geometric modeling; data structures; advanced programming; algorithm analysis

Did You Know?

Dr. Saleem listens to trance music while gymming

Representative Work • M.I. Nazeer and M. S. Shaikh, “Secure Network Coding Schemes: Comparisons and Broader Perspective,” Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series ISSN 1813-1743), vol. 43, no. 1A, June 2011.

• M. Rafi, M. S. Shaikh and A. Farooq, “Document Clustering based on Topic Maps,” International Journal of Computer Applications, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 32–36, 2010.

Area of Focus Optimization and optimal control; Hybrid systems; Information theory and coding

Dr. M. Shumail

Dr. Samina Yasmin

Assistant Professor & Program Director, Electrical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Chemistry, SSE

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Shumail researches high power microwave structures and sources, as well as accelerator physics. Currently he is conducting research on the finite element method and mode matching techniques for microwave structures.

Dr. Yasmin has multi-disciplinary research interests ranging from general chemistry to protein chemistry, iron chemistry and enzyme kinetics to molecular biology. A long term-standing focus of her research is to work on projects which involve interesting chemistry combined with modern scientific biological applications.

Representative Work • Shumail, G. B. Bowden, C. Chang, J. Neilson, S. G. Tantawi, “Application of the Balanced Hybrid Mode in Overmoded Corrugated Waveguides to Short Wavelength Dynamic Undulators”, Proceedings of IPAC2011, pp. 3326 -3328, San Sebastián, Spain,2011.

• Shumail, G. Bowden, C. Chang, J. Neilson, S. Tantawi,Beam Dynamics Studies of a Helical X-Band RF Undulator, AIP Conf. Proc. 1507, pp.

752-756, 15th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Austin, Texas, USA, 10-15 Jun 2012.

Area of Focus Electromagnetics; microwaves; antennas; optics

Did You Know?

Dr. Shumail enjoys reading Urdu poetry

Representative Work • Yasmin, S., Andrews, S. C., Moore, G. R. and Le Brun, N. E. (2011), A new role for heme: facilitating release of iron from the bacterioferritin iron biomineral. J.Biol. Chem. 286, 3473-3483.

• Swoden, R. J., Yasmin, S., Rees, N. H., Bell, S.G., and Wong L.L., (2005) “Biotransformation of the sesquiterpene (+)-valencene by P450cam and P450 BM3” Org. Biomol. Chem., 3, 57 – 64.

Area of Focus Biological chemistry; biotechnology; molecular biology

Did You Know?

Dr. Yasmeen enjoys walking along the sea front

Dr. Umair Azfar Khan

Dr. Abdul Basit Memon

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, SSE

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, SSE

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Kyushu University, Japan

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Khan is interested in working on 3D terrain generation and texture manipulation by voice input.

Dr. Memon’s research interests lie in mathematical system theory, robotics, and Optimization Algorithms.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• Umair Azfar Khan, Yoshihiro Okada. 2012.

Evolving story and character generation for role-playing games. In WASA 2012.

• Memon, A.B., and Verriest, E.I. Suboptimal multi-mode state estimation and mode detection. In: Proceedings of the 51st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, 2012

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Mr. Shahzad Raza

Mr. Yousuf Kerai

Lecturer, Mathematics, SSE

Adjunct Faculty, SSE

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (in progress)

Master of Arts in Teaching, Bennington College, U.S.A.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Mr. Raza’s works on machine learning methods and Bayesian inference.

Mr. Kerai is passionate about learning techniques through the use of music, and in the development of secondary level academic curricula.

Dr. Waqar Saleem teaching controllable high-fidelity facial transfers in CS 111 Computational Thinking II

Ms. Saima Zaidi teaching the basics of design in a CSD class

SCHOOL OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (AHSS) Habib University’s School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences offers a vigorous interdisciplinary, humanistic and multi-medial education through radical new programs in Social Development & Policy and Communication Studies & Design. At Habib University you are required to learn broadly and deeply. Depth is covered in your major. Breadth is covered in three study areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, quantitative reasoning, and communication studies). The essence of such an education is not what you study but the result – gaining the ability to think critically and independently and to write, reason, and communicate clearly – the foundation for all professions. All successful careers require critical thinking, teamwork, sensitivity to cultural, demographic, economic and societal differences and political perspectives. A liberal arts education provides this grounding. Most people will have six to 10 jobs during their careers, and liberal arts majors are the most adaptable to new circumstances. A third of all Fortune 500 CEOs have liberal arts degrees.

A liberal education enables critical thinking and the capacity to put tough issues into a larger context.

Such graduates will develop skills to help our country implement solutions rather than simply conduct arguments. Finally, our society desperately needs the grounding in ethical thinking and questioning that the liberal arts provide. Improving engineering fundamentals will accomplish little if our ethical foundations keep eroding. Habib University ensures that our students develop that capacity and capability to think creatively and become active problem solvers.

The School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences is offering the following degrees: BA (Honours) Communication Studies & Design BSc (Honours) Social Development & Policy

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Research Interests The history of modern Urdu literary-critical culture, with respect to the problematic of the ghazal at key moments in the trajectory of Indo-Muslim nationalism. The question of the lyric and lyric subjectivity in modernity and the past. He is also conducting research on the development of the core curriculum ranging from questions of modernity to our regional humanistic inheritance.

Representative Work • Acts of Askesis, Scenes of Poiesis: The Dramatic Phenomenology of Another Violence in a Muslim Painter-Poet,' Diacritics: A Review Journal of Criticism and Theory, Vol. 40.2 (2012), pp. 50-71 • 'Profession on the Cusp of Saturn's House: Weighing the Wager & Wages of the Time of a Postcolonial-Historical Pedagogy, or 'Teaching History at the Limit of Time', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2013 • 'The Nostalgic Subject: A Genealogy of the Critique of Nostalgia,' Working Paper No. 23, Interuniversity Center for Research on Sociology of Law, Information and Legal Institutions in Italy

Area of Focus Research, teaching and writing at the intersection of anthropology, history, literature and philosophy, both Western and non-Western, especially Islam and South Asia

Did You Know?

Dr. Naqvi makes delicious Mirchi Ka Salan (music band)

Dr. Nosheen Ali

Dr. Hassan Ali Khan

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Ph.D. in Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA

Research Interests Dr. Ali’s current research focuses on the history and nature of poetic knowledge in South Asia.

Poetic knowledge refers to the whole spectrum of cultural expressions which have been fundamental to the shaping of self and collectivity, and spirituality, ethics and politics in this part of the world.

Representative Work • 2012. “Poetry, Power, Protest: Reimagining Muslim Nationhood in Northern Pakistan.”

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 32 (1): 13-24.

• 2010. “Books vs. Bombs? Humanitarian Development and the Narrative of Terror in Northern Pakistan.” Third World Quarterly 31 (4):

Ph.D. in the Arts and Humanities, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Research Interests Dr. Ali’ research interests lie in the cultural and religious life of Tharparker, Sindh.

His independent research project is titled ‘Lost Narratives’ (January-December 2010).

Representative Work • Book: Constructing Islam on the Indus: The Material History of the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, 1200–1500 AD, the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS): London (forthcoming 2014).

• Book Contribution: ‘The Satpanth: A multi-faith belief system from the Indo-Muslim Middle Ages,’ in Andreas H.Pries, Laetitia Martzolff, Robert Langer and Claus Ambos (Eds) (2013) Syncretism, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (published)

Area of Focus Area of Focus State-making & social movements; Development & alienation; Muslim cultural politics; Poetic knowledge; Information technology & social change

Did You Know?

Dr. Ali writes Urdu poetry

Study of Religions/ Sufism; Medieval Islamic history

Did You Know?

Dr. Khan was a Taekwondo star in his childhood

Dr. Aaron Mulvany

Dr. Noman Baig

Assistant Professor & Director, Academic Performance & Summer Programs, Social Development and Policy

Assistant Professor, Social development and Policy, AHSS

Ph.D. in South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Texas (Austin), USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Mulvany’s work focuses on the intersection of “official” narratives of risk, crisis, and disaster (e.g., sanctioned histories, policies, mitigation strategies) with non-official/community/personal narratives maintained by members of at-risk communities and the tensions that arise when these versions conflict.

Dr. Baig’s research investigated how post-9/11 financial surveillance has influenced mercantile practices in contemporary Pakistan. The ethnographic research was conducted in Pakistan largest wholesale bazaar, Bolton Market, in Karachi, (2011-2013), and concentrated largely on customary monetary networks.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• "High Dudgeon: Crafting Affective Narratives from (semi-) Official Texts," RMN Newsletter 7: Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities, December 2013.

• Aspiring Present: Breathing Life into the ‘City of Death,’ Handbook of Religion and the Asian Cities.

(University of California Press) (Forthcoming 2015).

• “Policy Legends and Water Policy in the Union Territory of Puducherry,” Water History, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s12685-013-0081-3

• “Mediating Belief and Senses: Dawat-e-Islami’s Emerging Madina of Visuality,” Visual; Pilgrim2013.

Area of Focus

Area of Focus

Anthropology of disaster; Water; Memory & orality

Self and subjectivity; Economic anthropology; Religion and cities

Did You Know?

Dr. Mulvany recorded a jazz album with Glenn Spearman

Did You Know?

Dr. Baig practices meditation

Mr. Fahd Ali

Dr. Sarah Humayun

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Ph.D. in Economics, The New School for Social Research, USA

PhD. in English Literature, University of Edinburgh; UK

Research Interests

Research Interests

Mr. Ali’s research focuses on state formation and taxation in Pakistan. His dissertation attempts to explain why the Pakistani state is unable to tax its citizens effectively despite several efforts to reform its tax system.

Dr. Humayun’s research interests are in the twentieth-century and contemporary novel, poetry, in the theory and history of modernism, as well in political and social thought. At present she is revising her dissertation, which explored the novels, poems and essays of Philip Larkin, for publication.

Representative Work • Identifying factors that can make electric power generation from solar photovoltaic technology marketable in Pakistan (The Pakistan Development Review 43:3 (Autumn 2004) pp 267-294) With A. H. Nayyar and Waqas Ullah Khan Shinwari • Working paper published by SDPI titled “The History of Private Power in Pakistan” June 2007 with Fatima Beg

Representative Work • Bayan: A Bi-annual Socio-legal Journal. ‘The Freedom of Speech’ (vol. VI, 2009); ‘The Law of Marriage’ (vol. IV, 2005); ‘Constitutional Development’ (vol. III, 2005). Lahore, Simorgh Women’s Resource and Publication Centre • The Romance of Raja Rasalu and Other Tales.

Lahore: Simorgh Women’s Resource and Publication Centre, 2007

Area of Focus Marxian political economy, State theory; State formation; Public finance; Post Keynesian and structuralist macroeconomics

Area of Focus Twentieth century and contemporary novel; Poetry; Theory and history of modernism

Dr. Asif Farrukhi

Dr. Hafeez Jamali

Associate Professor and Director, Arzu Center for Vernacular Languages and Humanities

Assistant Professor and Interim Program Director, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Master’s in Public Health, Harvard University, USA

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Farrukhi’s academic and research interests are in literature and language. Known for his short stories and essays, seven collections of his short fiction and two collections of critical essays have been published. He has published translations of prose and poetry from modern and classical writers.

Dr. Jamali’s research examines how Pakistani government’s investment in mega development projects such as transnational gas pipelines and commercial ports have impacted the lives and transformed the political attitudes of ethnic Baloch people.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• Look At The City From Here: - Karachi writings, selected and edited by Asif Farrukhi, Oxford University Press, Karachi 2011.

• 2012 (Manuscript in preparation) Demography of Race and Ethnicity in Pakistan. In R. Saenz, N. Rodriguez, and D. Embrick Eds. The International Handbook of Demography of Race and Ethnicity.

New York: Springer.

• Upon a Time: Cultural Legacies, Fictional Worlds of the Partition and Beyond, in Quurratulain Hyder and the River of Fire, edited by Rakhshanda Jalil, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2011.

Area of Focus Development of modern Urdu fiction; sociocultural aspects of historical events in 1947 and 1971 with contemporary literature; Post-colonial fiction;

Did You Know?

Dr. Farrukhi is a Qawwali enthusiast

• 2011 (In Press) A Tempest in my Harbour: Globalization, Baloch Identity, and the Politics of Place in Gwadar, Pakistan. In V. Prashad, M. Tahir, and Q.C. Memon Eds. Dispatches from Pakistan.

New Delhi: Leftword Press.

Area of Focus Space and place; Globalization and Development; Social movements

Dr. Severine Minot

Dr. Muhammad Haris

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy, AHSS

Ph.D. in Sociology, York University, Canada

Ph.D in Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Minot’s research interests include the cultural politics of identity formation and transformation, and the trans-cultural dynamics emergent from the global flow of people, merchandise, capital and information.

Dr. Haris’ research is a synthesis of the central insights of his dissertation and his specific role as a Pakistani intellectual and is tentatively titled, “Why is Pakistan a tragic nation?” In this project the concept of the tragic is extended so as to apply to nations, as opposed to individual figures.

Representative Work • Minot S. (2009) Universal Human Rights and Sustainable Globalization: Reaching for a Castle in the Sky. 2007 SYLFF Regional - Forum Selected Papers on "Human Rights and Creative Leadership." Tokyo: The Tokyo Foundation: 103-130.

(Peer reviewed) • Minot S., Leclerc A. and G. Allaire (2008) Liminaire. Francophonie D’Amérique. Special

Area of Focus Transnationalism; Migration; Cultural Studies

Did You Know?

Dr. Minot is a scuba diver

Representative Work • “Utilitarian, Libertarian, and Rawlsian Theories of Justice, and the question: Is the Nitaqat system Just or Unjust?” Paper presented at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, April 19, 2014.

•“Ethical Citizenship--‐Universality, Strife, and the Promise of Technology,” paper presented at the Liberal Arts International Conference on Ethical

Area of Focus History of western philosophy; Social and political philosophy; Philosophy in art, Literature, and Film

Did You Know?

Dr. Haris explores old neighborhoods of Karachi

Dr. Heidingsfelder

Jamil Dehlavi

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies & Design, AHSS

Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Design, AHSS

Ph.D. in Literature and Media Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

MFA in Film Directing, Columbia University, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Heidingsfelder studies emerging forms of communication media with respect to their broader function and performance in society. His work is interdisciplinary in scope, situated at the nexus of communication theory, sociology, and cultural studies.

Mr. Dehlavi is an acclaimed filmmaker and has won numerous awards internationally for his work. His interests lie in the development of Pakistani cinema.

Representative Work • Heidingsfelder, Markus (2012): System Pop. Berlin: Kadmos. Review • Fuchs, Peter / Heidingsfelder, Markus (2005): Das Gehirn ist genauso doof wie die Milz. Weilerswist: Velbrueck

Representative Work • The Guitarist (1973) • Towers of Silence (1976) • The Blood of Hussain (1980) • Immaculate Conception (1992) • Jinnah (1998) • Seven Lucky Gods (2013)

Mohammed Hanif Visiting Professor, Social Development & Policy, AHSS University of East Anglia, UK

Area of Focus

Research Interests

Communication Studies; Sociology; Architecture as communication; Cultural Studies; Pop-Systems

Mr. Hanif’s research interests are script writing, Urdu Literature and dissecting the political economy of the Baloch people.

Did You Know?

Dr. Heidingsfelder is a musician and can play a number of instruments

Representative Work • A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) • A Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011) • The Baloch Who Is Not Missing & Other Who Are (2013)

Saima Zaidi

Dr. Sadia Mehmood

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies & Design, AHSS

Assistant Professor, Social Development & Policy, AHSS

MSc in Communication Design, Pratt Institute, USA

Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Ms. Zaidi’s research interest cut across disciplines.

Her work explores the interaction between the present-day viewer with an image-saturated environment—especially in the urban space in Pakistan.

Dr. Mehmood’s research work is regarding minorities in Pakistan, specifically the “minoritization” of Hindus in Pakistan, and the influence of modern western hermeneutics on contemporary Islamic thought.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• ‘Manto Centenary: 1912-2012’ • ‘The Beloved City’ edited by Bapsi Sidhwa (2012)

• 2015 International Conference on South Asian Literary Traditions, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore. “The Politics of Adopting a National Language in Early Pakistani Politics: Urdu or Bangla, but which Bangla?”

Area of Focus History of design; Typography; Visual communication

Did You Know?

Dr. Zaidi is a travel junkie

• 2014 Western Conference for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe. “The Emergence, Evolution, and Application of the Enemy Property Acts of 1965 and 1971 in Post-War Tharparkar.”

Area of Focus Dr. Inamullah Nadeem

Comparative religions; South Asian religions

Lecturer, Arzu Center for Regional Languages & Humanities Ph.D. in Urdu Litreature, University of Sindh, Jamshoro

Research Interests Dr. Nadeem is interested in the evolution of the oral and written form of regional languages.

Did You Know?

Dr. Mehmood explores less traversed destinations

Dr. Sahar Shah

Dr. Shahram Azhar

Assistant Professor, Arzu Center for Vernacular Languages

Assistant Professor, Social Development & Policy, AHSS

Ph.D. in Modern Sindhi Poetry- A New Classic, University of Sindh, Pakistan

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Shah’s research interests lie in poetry. She is specifically interested in sindhi poetry and the evolution of regional languages.

Dr Azhar’s work spans the areas of development economics and political economies of developing nations.

Representative Work

Representative Work

• Ke Na Wisran Moor (translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s: Mah o Saal e Ashnai), Department of Culture, Govt of Sindh, 2013 -

• 2015 “Re-Presenting Class, State and Accumulation in the Political Economy of Pakistan” (accepted for publication in the Economic and Political Weekly)

• Shaoor Shair Shairee (25 Research Papers), Sindhi Adabi Board, 2008

Did You Know?

Dr. Shah cooks delicious Biryani

• 2014 “Divide and Rule: An empirical investigation of the Colonial Origins of Conflict and Development”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Mr. Omair Bangash

Mr. Gulraiz Khan

Adjunct Faculty, Communication Studies & Design, AHSS

Lecturer, Communication Studies & Design, AHSS

Masters in Fine Arts Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, USA

Masters in Fine Arts Transdiscilplinary Design Parsons School of Design, USA

Research Interests

Research Interests

Mr. Bangash’s research interest range from multimedia design to design technology.

Mr. Khan is interested in urban design and development.

Dr. Jibran Rashid teaches the basics of Kendo (Japanese fencing) to a student

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