Professional Activities

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Teaching Related Experience

The University of Oregon

  • Professor Emerita, Department of International & Global Studies, August 2023- present; Professor, September 1999 – July 2023 (Associate Professor, 1992-1999; Assistant Professor, 1988-1992) [the name changed from International Studies to International & Global Studies in 2021]
  • Head, Department of International Studies, March 2009 – March 2016
  • Undergraduate Studies Director (interim), Department of International Studies, January – June 2016
  • Graduate Studies Director, Department of International Studies, September 2005 – September 2009; September – December 2011
  • Professor, UO Insight Seminars Women and Islam, May 2016; Militant Islam, April 2014; Fiction of Pakistan, January 2011; Indian Film January 2009; Women and Islam, February 2008 (This is an initiative to offer month-long courses to community members in Eugene)
  • Undergraduate Studies Director, International Studies Program, University of Oregon, September 1995-July 2002
  • Interim Director, International Studies Program, May – Sept 1995, July -September 1996, July – August 1997, November 1998 – January 1999, July -August 1999, March-June 2008

Elsewhere

  • Honorary Distinguished Professor, School of Sociology, Quaid-e-Azam University, various seminars and workshops, 2022 – onwards
  • Visiting Professor, Lahore College for Women University, to teach South Asia: Development and Social Change, January 3-16, 2019
  • Visiting Professor, Semester at Sea Program (University of Pittsburgh, International Studies Program), Fall Semester, August – December 2002 (while on sabbatical leave from Oregon)
  • Lecturer (tenure-track), Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, 1985-1987
  • Lecturer, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, January 1984 – May 1985
  • Visiting Lecturer, Semester at Sea Program (University of Pittsburgh, International Studies Program), Fall Semester, 1983

Applied Professional Experience

  • Organizer/coordinator, doctoral dissertation workshop series in Islamabad in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 2007 – 2012. This became a competitive selection process.
      • November 1-3, 2010: ran a 3-day doctoral dissertation workshop (with Dr. Saba Gul Khattak) for doctoral students concentrating on women and gender issues in Pakistan;
      • January 28-30, 2013: ran another 3-day doctoral dissertation workshop (with Dr. Pervez Pathan, University of Sindh @ Jamshoro) for doctoral students concentrating on women and gender issues in Pakistan
  • Country Expert testimony/witness consultant on various asylum cases and other legal cases involving Pakistanis (especially women, Balochis, Shi’as, Christians, Ahmediyas and other minorities), Afghan and Indian citizens in the U.S.; assisted various lawyers in preparation of cases concerning detainees at Guantanamo Bay; and conducted informational trainings (SF INS office, August 1998, and consultant to that office on other occasions) on human rights and sociopolitical issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India affecting asylum and other legal cases, 1996 – present.
  • External Guest Lecturer for TOEFL exam, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, 2006
  • State-wide Coordinator of Oregon’s participation in nationwide teleconference on September 28, 1996, organized by the President’s Interagency Council for Women, to develop an Action Agenda to empower women and families in the U.S. for the coming decade
  • Consultant on domestic violence to the Asia Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, to facilitate creation of a research agenda to address perceptions of domestic violence and NGO responses, March-April 1996
  • Participant in Briefing Session at the White House, as part of being a member of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Women’s Conference Circle” to implement the Beijing Platform for Action in the U.S., January 24, 1996
  • Field Director, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (Lahore), October 1994 – February 1995
  • International team of election observers member, National Democratic Institute for International Affair’s observation mission of national and provincial elections in Pakistan, October 1993
  • Principal Consultant in the Future’s Group’s (Washington, D.C.) successful bid on sub-contracting women-in-development responsibilities from USAID, 1989
  • Principal Consultant with DEVRES on an Evaluation and Development Information Methods IQC, 1989-1992
  • Consultant to USAID in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributing to the DEVRES report entitled “U.S. Economic Assistance to Pakistan: Review of the Period 1982-87,” March – April 1988. In particular, I wrote the assessment for social sector projects and crosscutting social issues, including women and development, population planning, health, and opium poppy substitution programs.
  • Educational Consultant to the Bowring Refugee Camp (administered by the Save The Children Foundation), Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong, October 1986 – December 1987. I worked with the social services coordinator to develop educational programs for adult Vietnamese women interned in the closed camp.
  • Consultant to Social Development Division, ESCAP, United Nations headquarters, Bangkok, July 1986; I worked on strategies to expand their women and development activities in South Asia
  • Social Scientist, accompanying the American Medical Student Association’s Pakistan Study Tour, Summer 1983, in Pakistan. Focus: rural and urban health care problems.

Post-doctoral Fieldwork Experience

  • Pakistan, January-February 2026: continuing field research in Rawalpindi on the role and impact of local shrines on working class communities, to complete book manuscript, Khuda ke Piyares [God’s dear ones]: Finding Faith and Community in Local Shrines in Urban Rawalpindi, Pakistan [in progress]
  • Pakistan, December 2024-January 2025: initial field research on lesser-known shrines of Rawalpindi
  • Pakistan, October-November 2021: initial field research with historian Dr. Yaqoob Bangash on lesser–known shrines in older areas of Lahore
  • Pakistan, December 2018-March 2019: final field research to complete book manuscript, Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices
  • Pakistan, January–March 2017 and September 2017-March 2018: continuation of research for book manuscript, Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices
  • Pakistan, August 2016 and July-August 2015: initiation of new research project, Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices
  • Pakistan, January–March 2014: continuing research in Pakistan for Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan manuscript and research on post-Taliban reconstruction, rehabilitation and development challenges in Swat (while on one-term sabbatical)
  • Pakistan, August-September 2013, and January 2013: continuing research in Pakistan for Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan manuscript
  • Pakistan, January-February 2012: continuing research on reconstruction and development challenges in Swat
  • Pakistan, January-February 2011, and September 2011: research on reconciliation and rebuilding in Swat in the wake of the TTP (2009) and the megaflood (2010)
  • Pakistan, October-November 2010: research for Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan manuscript
  • Pakistan, January-February 2010: research on women’s rights, Swat crisis, legal reform, and continuing research for Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan manuscript
  • Pakistan, May 2009: updated research on political Islam in Pakistan (while finalizing the inaugural dissertation workshop with the Higher Education Commission, as AIPS representative)
  • Pakistan, October-November 2008: research on women’s rights, legal reform and continuing research for Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan manuscript
  • Pakistan, November 2007: research on women’s rights and legal reforms, and political Islam
  • Pakistan, January-February 2007: research on the MMA, women’s rights and political Islam
  • Pakistan, November 2005: research on the social impact of the October 2005 earthquake
  • Pakistan, August – October 2004: research on Islamist politics and policies and their impact, in particular, on women’s rights in the NWFP
  • Pakistan, October – November 2003: research on Islamist politics and MMA policies in the NWFP
  • Pakistan, January – March 1999, August-September 2001; Tunisia, September – October 1999; and Malaysia, June – August 2000, July-August 2001: research on ways in which the state and public discourse in each country is responding to international instruments (particularly CEDAW) to which the state has acceded regarding women’s rights.
  • Pakistan, January 1997- March 1997: research on how the Government of Pakistan, major donors and significant NGOs are addressing and implementing resolutions agreed to in the Islamabad Declaration (8/95) and the Beijing Platform for Action (9/95).
  • Pakistan, March 1996: research for the Asia Foundation on domestic violence in northern Punjab, particularly causes, prevalence, perceptions, coping strategies, and potential strategies NGOs might use to minimize its increase.
  • Pakistan, October 1994 – February 1995: research on women’s empowerment, education and human rights in Pakistan.
  • Pakistan, April – December 1992: research on female higher education in Pakistan on a Fulbright grant.
  • Pakistan, March – April 1988: research for USAID’s assessment of 1982-87 program in Pakistan. In particular, I wrote the assessment for social sector projects and crosscutting social issues including women and development, population planning, health, and opium poppy substitution programs.
  • Pakistan, April – September 1987: researched life histories of working class women in the Old City of Lahore on a Fulbright grant.
  • Hong Kong, November 1986 – December 1987: study of the Muslim Community of Hong Kong.