Aisha Khan, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Aisha Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Anthropology. Her Ph.D. was done with a concentration on the Caribbean and Latin America, race and ethnicity, social stratification, theory and method in diaspora studies, and religion. She has conducted field research in Honduras, Central America among the Garifuna (Black Carib), analyzing the informal labor sector and women's participation in it. Her subsequent research has been among East Indians in Trinidad, West Indies, analyzing ideologies of race and religion among Hindus and Muslims. Her fellowships include those from Fulbright, Sigma Xi Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and a Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her major publications include Women Anthropologists: Biographical Sketches (1989, University of Illinois Press, co-edited), selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on her ethnographic research, and several book reviews and review essays. Her most recent book is Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad, 2004, Duke University Press.

Publications

Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad, 2004, Duke University Press.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth: The Caribbean as Master Symbol." Cultural Anthropology 16(3):271-302, 2001.

"Portraits in the Mirror: Nature, Culture, and Women's Travel Writing in the Caribbean." Women's Writing 10(1), 2003.

"Rurality and "Racial" Landscapes in Trinidad." In Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy. Barbara Ching and Gerald Creed, editors. Pp. 39-69. NY: Routledge, 1997.

"Juthaa in Trinidad: Food. Pollution, and Hierarchy in a Caribbean Diaspora Community." American Ethnologist 21(2): 245-269, 1994.

ak105@nyu.edu