Assistant Project

NAUSHEEN HAFEEZA ANWAR

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EDUCATION

ColumbiaUniversity, Program of Urban Planning,

New York, NY

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 Pakistan s

Export Industries

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, ColumbiaUniversity, 2005- 2007

Deans Fellowship, SIPA, ColumbiaUniversity,

1990

Teaching Assistant Fellowship, SIPA, ColumbiaUniversity, 1991

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:Critical

Perspectives in Sociology: The Making of Modern Societies (Spring 2011)Contemporary

Perspectives in Anthropology

(Spring 2011)Managing

Cities of the Global South in the 21st Century (Fall 2011)

Course

taught at Dept. of Architecture & Planning, NED University, Karachi:

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, Cheltenham. Journal

of Economic Geography, Vol. 10 (2), 2010.

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

South Asia Initiative

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)

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