Farina Mir | |
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Occupation | Professor, Historian |
Known for | History of the Punjab, British colonialism |
Notable work | The Social Space of Language Punjab Reconsidered Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives |
Farina Mir is a historian and a professor at the University of Michigan. She has a keen interest in the history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India.
In 1993, Mir received her B.A. in English literature and Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures from Barnard College and in 2002, she received her Ph.D. in History with distinction from Columbia University.