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  Saadia Toor
Associate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

Saadia Toor
Associate Professor

Office : Building 4S Room 202
Phone : 718.982.3782
Fax : 718.982.3794
saadia.toor@csi.cuny.edu


Degrees :
AB, Mt Holyoke College
MS, Cornell University
PhD, Cornell University



Biography / Academic Interests :
Her scholarship revolves around issues of culture, nationalism, gender/sexuality, state formation, and international political economy. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled The State of Islam?: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan.  

Scholarship / Publications :
Child Labor in Pakistan’s Export Industries. Forthcoming in Child Labor World Atlas: a Reference Encyclopedia, edited by Hugh Hindman. Published by M. E. Sharpe.

“Moral Regulation in a Postcolonial Nation-State: Gender and the Politics of Islamization in Pakistan”. Special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol.9, issue 2 (July 2007), pp 255 – 275.

“A National Culture for Pakistan: The Political Economy of a Debate”. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. v. 6, n. 3 (2005), pp. 318-340.

“Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday”, introductory essay for special issue of Cultural Dynamics with S. Banerjee, A. Chatterji, L. Chaudhry, M. Desai and K. Visweswaran. Cultural Dynamics v.16 n 2-3, 2004. pp. 125-139.


 
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