Bio
About
Areas of interest: medical anthropology, psychiatry, clinical psychoanalysis, anthropology of Islam, Kashmir, occupation, borders, carcerality and abolition
Publications
- Zunaira Komal (2022), "On Manic Poems: Listening for the Sense of “Azadi” in Divine Calamity," Political Theology Special Issue Ethnographies of Tribulation 23:6, 543-559.
- Zunaira Komal (2023), "On Kashmiri Men: Disappearance, Nonbeing, Islam," Palgrave Handbook for New Directions in Kashmir Studies.
- Zunaira Komal (2021), “Holding on to God’s Rope: Knotting the Adventure of Trace in Tradition,” Contending Modernities.
- Critical Kashmir Studies authors (Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma, Ather Zia), “Geographies of Occupation in South Asia,” Feminist Studies Special Double Issue: Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts, Vol 45, No. 2/3 (2019).
- Zunaira Komal (2019), "'Until Kashmir Is Free, War It Will Be': Islam, Militancy and Suffering in Kashmir," Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World.
- Zunaira Komal (2019), "Civilian versus Militant: Kashmir, Islam, and the Brewing IndoPak War," Jadaliyya.
Teaching
- Associate Instructor (Summer 2022, Spring 2023): Medical Anthropology
- Associate Instructor (Spring 2022, Summer 2023): Global Health
- Teaching Assistant (Winter 2023): Global Gender and Culture
- Teaching Assistant (Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022): Intro to Cultural Anthropology
- Teaching Assistant (Fall 2019): Psychoanalysis and the Literary Imagination
- Teaching Assistant (Spring 2019): Refugee Fictions
- Teaching Assistant (Winter 2019): Intro to Gender Studies
- Teaching Assistant (Fall 2018): Nature/Culture
Awards
- Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024)
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation (2021-2022)
- Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis Humanities Institute (Jul 2020)
- Mellon Initiative in Racial Capitalism Summer Fellowship (May 2019)
- American Institute of Pakistan Studies Short-term Research Grant (April 2019)
- Suad Joseph Summer Research Award (March 2018, March 2020, August 2022)
- Annual Graduate Fellow, Comparative Border Studies Mellon Initiative (2017-2018)