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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 courses on global history in the General Education Program. He is the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations.

Dr. Hanifi was interviewed by JMU's Madison Magazine; read the interview here.

His 2011 publications include Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (Stanford U. Press), “The Pashtun Counter-Narrative,” in Arguments for the Future of Afghanistan (Marine Corps U. Press), and “Henry George Raverty the Colonial Marketing of Pashto,” in Changing Conceptions of South Asia’s Past (Yoda Press). 

Among his essays appearing in 2012 are “Epistemological Quandaries of the Afghan Nation,” in Alienated Nations, Fractured States (Harvard U. Press) and “A History of Linguistic Boundary Crossing Within and Around Pashto,” Fragments of the Afghan Frontier (Hurst & Co.) 

Click here for links to some of his publications in electronic form.

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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