NAUSHEEN HAFEEZA ANWAR
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning
Specialization: International Planning & Comparative Urban Studies
Deposited October 2007; Graduated May 2008
Dissertation: Manufacturers’
Responses to Infrastructure Constraints: How Firms Enhanced Competitiveness in
Advisor: Sumila Gulyani
Ph.D. Committee: Robert Beauregard, Natasha Iskander, Smita Srinivas, Nichola Lowe
Academic/Research Interests: neoliberalism and governmentality; rise of security state/ state theory in political anthropology; migration, citizenship and informality in South Asia; urbanism & civil society in South Asia; social exclusion & built environment; infrastructure development; regional and development studies; ethnographic research methodologies in social science research. Interdisciplinary research experience.
Fellowships,
grants and honors:
AAS Travel Grant for conference, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) March-April 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Faculty Research Grant for new project on migration and citizenship in Karachi, Pakistan, Harvard University, 2009-2010.
AIPS Travel Grant for conferences, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), March-April 2009.
Departmental Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates, Columbia University, 2005-2007
Departmental Tuition Fellowship,
Deans’ Fellowship, SIPA,
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, SIPA,
Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs, New York, NY
MIA, International Policy Analysis & Public Management, June 1992
B.A., with Honors in Political Science, June 1985 (minor in economics)
Courses
taught at Department of Social Sciences, IBA, Karachi:
Course
taught at Dept. of Architecture & Planning, NED University, Karachi:
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Advanced Urban Sociology
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Institute of Business Administration, IBA, Karachi, Pakistan
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, 2011
Teaching undergraduate, introductory level courses in sociology, anthropology and urban studies.
NED University, Department of Architecture & Planning, Karachi, Pakistan
Visiting Lecturer, 2010
Taught a graduate-level seminar titled Advanced Urban Sociology. Course is a core requirement for those seeking specialization in urban planning in the Masters program.
Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs, New York, NY
Teaching Assistant, 1991 - 1992
Co-taught a graduate-level seminar titled Public Management. Course was a core requirement for those specializing in the MIA program’s International Policy Analysis and Public Management functional concentration.
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS & MANUSCRIPTS IN
PROGRESS
“State Power, Civic Participation & the Urban Frontier: The Politics of the Commons in Karachi”. Antipode, accepted/forthcoming 2011.
“Citizenship, Surveillance & Sovereignty: Managing Burmese & Bangladeshi Migrants in Transnational Pakistani Spaces”. Work in Progress
“The Politics of Planning & Insurgent Citizenship in Karachi’s Urban Periphery”. Work in Progress
“Institutions, Infrastructure & Industrial Development: Some Lessons from Sialkot, Pakistan”. To be submitted to Regional Studies.
“Where are the urban planners? New configurations in Pakistan’s planning horizon”. Work in Progress.
“Inefficiencies in Public Electricity Provision and Impacts on Firms in Karachi’s Manufacturing Sector”. The Pakistan Development Review, 38:2 (Summer 1999).
“Institutional Actors in Discursive Engagements: Examining Processes of Infrastructure Reform for SME Industrial Districts in Sialkot, Pakistan”, published in conference proceedings, 24th – 26th May, 2010 http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2010/may-pecs-papers.asp
“Retail Restructuring and Spatial Dynamics in South Asia: Global TNC, Local Neighborhoods, and the Regulatory Challenge in Megacities”, Proceedings of the Conference “Future of the Consumer Society”, 28th – 29th, May, 2009 http://www.futuresconference.fi/2009/?id=materials
BOOK REVIEW
The Globalization of Retailing (2 volumes) (eds.) Coe, N. & Wrigley, N., 2009. Edward Elgar,
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS
“The Politics of Planning & Insurgent Citizenship in Karachi’s Urban
Periphery”, Paper to be presented on panel titled Roti, Kapda, aur Makaan (Food, Clothing, and Shelter): The Political
Economy of Housing in South Asia, at the Annual Conference on South Asia:
University of Wisconsin Madison October 2011.
“Citizenship, Surveillance, and Sovereignty: Managing Burmese &
Bangladeshi Migrants in Transnational Pakistani Spaces”, paper presented for a panel
at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference, March 31st
– April 3rd, 2011, USA. Panel titled Rethinking
Citizenship in Asia: Comparative Perspectives on Recent Trends.
“Institutional Actors in Discursive Engagements: Examining Processes of Infrastructure Reform for SME Industrial Districts in Pakistan”, paper presented at the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Conference, May 26th, 2010, Pecs, Hungary.
“Dilemmas of Desire & Belonging: Managing Migrants as Workers in Transnational Pakistani Spaces”, invited to present paper at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Agha Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. November 5th, 2009
“The Last Frontier in Global Retailing: Retail Restructuring in South Asia & the Regulatory Challenge for Local Government”, paper presented at a conference on Asian Dynamics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18th, 2009.
“Transnational Retailing & the Political Economy of Land Development: The Case of Makro Embedding’ in Karachi, Pakistan”, paper presented at a conference on the Future of the Consumer Society, University of Tampere, Finland, May 29th, 2009.
“Governance,
Labor & Institutional Change in Pakistan: Historical Processes &
Contemporary Challenges”, New project presented at Harvard University, March 6th,
2009
Participated in and presented two new research projects in workshop titled South Asia Across Disciplines, Harvard University, Fall & Spring 2008 – 2009.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan, January 2010 – to present
Department of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
Responsibilities include teaching courses and conceptualizing new research agendas. New research agendas include mapping political geographies of social exclusion in Karachi; impact of globalization on loss of public common; historicizing Karachi’s modernist planning; theorizing spatial representations of democracy and citizenship.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 2009 – June 2010
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Visiting Scholar, (Affiliated Status)
Conducted fieldwork for new research project concerning migration and citizenship in Karachi. Ethnographic study examines the way male and female Burmese and Bengali migrants as workers with ambivalent legal status are managed by state agencies. This project engages with recent theorizations on the global South concerning processes of citizenship making, governance, and exclusion.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2008 – August 2009
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Prepared select chapters of dissertation manuscript for publication. Explored new agendas for research on (1) state and civic governmentality; (2) immigration, citizenship and migration in post-9/11 Pakistan. Prepared manuscript based on new fieldwork conducted in Summer 2008 on state power, globalization & politics of space in Karachi. Prepared papers on new research themes for conference presentations. Designed new seminar and introduction level courses for teaching.
Idaara-Taleem Agahi (ITA Public Trust), Lahore, Pakistan & London, UK, 2000 - 2006
NGO - Public-private sector collaboration for advancing primary and secondary education in Pakistan.
Secretary of UK Chapter
Assisted in establishing Trust chapter in London, UK. Interfaced with public sector officials to advance knowledge for a collaborative enterprise. Sourced and pre-screened donors. Assisted in development of multi-year fund-raising strategies. Monitored compliance of disbursed funds. Prepared and submitted reports on goals achieved.
MEMBERSHIP, AFFILIATION
Member of American Planning Association (APA)
Member of Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Member of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Member of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
Member of Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Affiliate of the Sloan Industries Studies program (SIS)