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Ethnography

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Emily M. FitzGerald

PhD Student

Research Interest

Philosophy of Religion
Continental Philosophy
East Asian Philosophy and Religion
Embodiment
Martial Arts
Ethnography
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Zehra Mehdi

PhD Student

Research Interest

South Asian Religions
Islam
Psychoanalysis
Political Psychology
Political Resistance
Trauma, Mourning, and Social Suffering
Psychological/Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography
Religious Minorities
Political Violence
Secularism
Nationalism
Partition literature
19th century Urdu poetry

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The ‘work of Religion’: Trauma, Mourning and Political Resistance in the lives of Muslims in ‘Old Lucknow’
Department of Religion80 Claremont Avenue, Room 103, MC 9610 · New York, NY 10027

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