The Borghesi Mellon Workshop on Public Asian Studies linked here is excited to have Dr Ather Zia for an online talk on human rights in Kashmir for Spring 2025. Dr Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology from UC Irvine in 2014. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.
Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (June 2019), which received numerous accolades, including the 2020 Gloria Anzaldua Honorable Mention Award, the 2021 Public Anthropologist Award, the Advocate of the Year Award 2021, and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Rosaldo Book Prize. She was also featured in the Femilist 2021, a list of 100 women from the Global South working on critical issues.
This program is a part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
