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Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (Associate Professor, B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. University of Michigan) teaches courses on the history of the modern Middle East and South Asia in the History Department and in the General Education Program. He is the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations.

His publications include  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (Columbia University Press, 2008); "Material and Social Remittances to Afghanistan" (Asian Development Bank publication); and  "Impoverishing a Colonial Frontier" in Iranian Studies. Click here for links to these publications in electronic form.

Dr. Hanifi participates in the Working Group on South Asia of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Their working paper on a regional approach to peace and development in the region can be read here.

Dr. Hanifi has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Historical Association, the Asian Development Bank, and JMU for research conducted in Australia, Europe, North America, and South Asia.  

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
(Full-time Faculty)
History Department
CLEV 306
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 1743
e-mail: hanifism@jmu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 




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