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Who edits SAMAJ? SAMAJ has been set up by a team of young researchers, confirmed academics and doctoral students, all specialists of South Asia.

Nosheen Ali is a Ph. D candidate in development sociology at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) and a coordinator of GRASP (Group for Research in the Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics of Pakistan). Her research investigates the dynamics of rule and resistance in Pakistan’s Northern Areas, within the arenas of political representation, religious recognition, and ecological rights.

Luc Bellon is a Ph. D candidate in anthropology at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris). He has been working on the Balochi nationalist movement and is currently studying socio political dynamics of Pashtuns in north Balochistan (Pakistan).

Amélie Blom is a Visiting Faculty in political sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences' School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, a researcher associated with the French ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and the CERI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris), as well as the chief coordinator of GRASP. She has co-edited The Enigma of Islamist Violence (Hurst, 2007). Her research, in political sociology, focuses on patterns of mobilization in the name of Islam in Pakistan

Miniya Chatterji is a graduate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) and a Ph. D candidate in political science at Sciences-Po (Paris). She is working on South Asian Muslims in Europe.

Jérémie Codron is a Ph. D candidate in political science at Sciences-Po (Paris), a consultant at CERI and teaches at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris). He is working on Islamist movements and nation-building in Bangladesh.

Gilles Dorronsoro got his Ph. D in political anthropology at EHESS. A professor of political science at the Sorbonne University (Paris) and a specialist of Afghanistan, he has published Revolution Unending. Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present (Hurst, Columbia University Press, 2005).

Nicolas Jaoul is researcher in anthropology at the CNRS since 2008. After completing his PhD on the Ambedkarite movement in Uttar Pradesh (EHESS, 2004), he has pursued his ethnographic approach of the politics of the unprivileged and citizenship in India.

Loraine Kennedy is a CNRS research fellow, affiliated with the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS) at the EHESS in Paris. Her research on the political economy of India engages with three main themes: economic reforms, federal governance and growth dynamics in metropolitan regions. She is currently posted at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi (IFRE-MAE).

Aminah Mohammad-Arif got her Ph. D in anthropology at EHESS. She is a CNRS research fellow, affiliated with the CEIAS. She has published Salaam America: South Asian Muslims in New York (Anthem Press, 2002) and is presently working on the South Asian diaspora and on Muslims in India.

Christine Moliner is a Ph. D candidate in anthropology at EHESS. She works on Sikh identity in Punjab and in the diaspora.

Mariam Mufti is a Ph. D candidate in political science at Johns Hopkins University and a visiting teaching fellow at the Social Sciences Dept. of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Her research examines the formal and informal norms that guide Pakistan's political party system. She has co-authored, in 2008, a USAID assessment of Democracy and Governance in Pakistan.

Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal is a CNRS research fellow in political science, affiliated with the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS) at the EHESS in Paris, and currently on deputation to the French Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi. Her research on the Indian democracy engages with three main themes: the political representation of women; the place of participation in local democracy; and urban governance.

Ingrid Therwath is a graduate from Cambridge University. She got her Ph. D in political science at Sciences-Po. She is working on the relationship between the Indian State and the Indian diaspora and has also been conducting fieldwork on overseas Hindu communities. She is the journalist in charge of South Asia at the weekly news magazine Courrier International.

Corresponding members in South Asia, Europe and the US

Zarin Ahmad has a Ph. D in South Asian Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and is presently Research Fellow in the International Relations division at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.

Virinder Kalra is a researcher at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC, University of Manchester).

Nathaniel “Nate” Roberts is an ESRC post doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Usha Sanyal is Assistant Professor in History at Wingate University (USA).

Yoginder Sikand is Professor in Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University (Delhi).