Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Assistant Professor of International Studies & South Asian Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650

Office: Thomson Hall 429
Phone: (206) 221-4210
email: cdr33@u.washington.edu

Area Specialization
South Asia, especially Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir

Research Interests
Political and Legal Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Political Violence, Armed Conflict, Civil Insurgency and Social Transformation, Human Rights and Humanitarianism, Refugees and Displacement, Transitional Justice and Reconciliation,  Comparative Muslim Societies.

"My interests include political movements in contemporary Muslim societies, armed conflict and refugee studies, human rights and humanitarian interventions, and post-conflict reconciliation.  My research focuses on political violence and the transformation of political cultures generally and in contemporary South Asia, Pakistan, and Jammu and Kashmir specifically.  I have worked humanitarian assignments in Indian Jammu and Kashmir and conducted several years of field and archival research in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan.  My dissertation Refugees, Political Subjectivity, and the Morality of Violence: From ÎHijarat (Protective Migration)â to ÎJihad (Armed Struggle)â in Azad Kashmir examines the social and political aspects of Muslim Kashmiri refugee displacement, resettlement, and eventual involvement in a transnational organization of nationalist and jihadist militancy in the Kashmir region.  My current research extends this work by examining compensation programs for victims of the Kashmir conflict in both Indian and Pakistan administered Kashmirs."

Professional Employment
2004
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Assistant Professor of International Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology

2003
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Acting Assistant Professor of International Studies

1995-1996
Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (ICRC), Jammu & Kashmir, India Delegate Interpreter

Education
Ph. D. (2005), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Concentrations in South Asian Studies, Peace Studies, and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

M.A. (1999), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Certificate (1994), Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (Lahore, Pakistan),  Certificate in Advanced Urdu

B.A. (1993), Columbia University (New York, NY),  (magna cum laude), Major in Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures

Publications (Selected)

  • Refugees, Rights, and the Morality of Violence: From Hijarat to Jihad in Azad Kashmir. Ph.D. (2005) Cornell University.
     
  • Review of Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace: The Kashmir Dispute by Sumantra Bose (Harvard University Press, 2003) Journal of Asian Studies 64(1). February 2005.
     
  • “This Body of Shame and Honor: Sexual Assault and Ethnographic Encounters in Pakistan” For “Ethnographic Encounters with Violence,” Parvis Ghassem-Fachendi (ed) in Blackwell Press's series “Ethnographic Encounteres,” John Borneman (ed.) (In Progress, 2005).
     
  • “Refugees and the Geobody of Pakistan” for “Borderlands,” William Zartman (ed.). Univ. Of Minnesota Press (In Progress, 2005).
     
  • “Neither Duty nor Territory: Rights, Justice, and Jihad in Kashmir” for “Truth, Justice and Redress in Post-Conflict Societies,” Kimberly Theidon (ed.) Duke University Press. (In Progress, 2005).
     

 

Invited Lectures & Papers (Selected)

  • “Anthropology and the Comparative Study of Islam”; “Teaching 'Political Islam' to American  Undergraduates”; “Reflections on Teaching 'Islam' without Teaching 'Middle East Studies'”; and “Localizing Dissent, Globalizing Islam: Perspectives from the Kashmir Jihad” Lecture Series in Uzbekistan, Tashkent University, Institute of Islamic Studies, and Institute of  Oriental Studies (12/1-8/ 05)
     
  • “Resettlement, Repatriation, and Relief: The South Asian Refugee Regime, the International Refugee Regime, and Kashmiri Refugee Identity in Pakistan 1947-2000.” Lecture for the Pakistan Military Defense College, Islamabad, Pakistan (10/15/05)
     
  • “Sex, Death, and the Body of the Living Martyr: the Family and Jihad in Azad Kashmir.” Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Washington, Seattle  (12/1/03)
     
  • “Making Militants of Refugees: The Exposure of Human Rights Abuses, the Refusal of Humanitarian Relief and the Proliferation of Islamic Militant Organizations in Kashmir.” Department of Anthropology and South Asia Program, University of Texas, Austin (2/23/03), Departments of Anthro, Geography, and Asian Studies, University of Montana, Missoula (5/2/02)
     

 


Full Curriculum Vita
Courses Taught
South Asia / Kashmir Earthquake Information