Lamia Karim (B.A., 1984, Brandeis University; M.A., 1993, University of Michigan ; Ph.D., 2002, Rice University) joined the Department of Anthropology in 2003. Her dissertation won the John W. Gardner Award for the Best Dissertation in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at Rice University (2002).  She has published several articles on NGOs, women, ethnicity, and globalization that have appeared in the journals Contemporary South Asia and Political and Legal Anthropology Review (POLAR), and book chapters in The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries, James Faubion, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield 2001), and Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Notes on the Post Colonial Present, Angana Chatterji and Lubna Chowdhury (eds.) (Zubaan Books, circa 2006).  Lamia Karim’s research interests include gender, political economy, Islamic nationalism , violence, postcolonial feminist theory, and the anthropology of non-governmental institutions (NGOs).  She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled  “The Political Economy of Shame: Gender, Development and Debt in the Postcolonial Context.” 
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