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Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (Associate Professor, B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. University of Michigan) teaches courses on the history of the modern Middle East and South Asia in the History Department and in the General Education Program. He is the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations.

Dr. Hanifi was interviewed by JMU's Madison Magazine; read the interview
here."

H
is publications include:

"Connecting Histories in Afghanistan" (Columbia University Press, 2008);

"Material and Social Remittances to Afghanistan" (Asian Development Bank publication) [.pdf]

"Impoverishing a Colonial Frontier" in Iranian Studies [.pdf]

"Reframing a Regional Approach to South Asia: Demilitarization, Development and Sustainable Peace is a work product of the Working Group on South Asia"
(Institute for Public Knowledge) to which Dr. Hanifi is a contributor. [.pdf]

Dr. Hanifi has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Historical Association, the Asian Development Bank, and JMU for research conducted in Australia, Europe, North America, and South Asia.
















Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
(Full-time Faculty)
History Department
CLEV 306
MSC 2001
office phone:
+1 540 568 1743
e-mail: hanifism@jmu.edu