Yasmin Saikia teaches History, and holds the endowed Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of three monographs, several edited volumes, and numerous articles and book-chapters. Her book Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in Assam (2005) won the Srikanta Datta best book prize from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi in 2005, and her book Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (2011) won the Oral History Association Biennial Book Award in 2013. Yasmin Saikia's research and teaching interests are multidisciplinary, including peace studies, cultural and intellectual history, religious history with a focus on Muslim South Asia, gender and violence, and memory and identity. M. Raisur Rahman teaches History at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. Trained as a historian of South Asia, his academic focus has been on the literary, social, and intellectual histories of Muslims in modern India. For the last two decades, he has closely studied the Muslim social and cultural ethos, and the salience of Urdu literary culture in the United Provinces – now Uttar Pradesh – in order to understand Indian and Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections. Rahman's teaching and research interests include local and urban history as well as colonialism and cultural encounters. He is the author of Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India (2015), and several articles and book chapters pertaining to Muslim South Asia.
