Faris+Khan

I am a first year graduate student currently pursuing my Masters in Cultural Production. Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, I came to the United States about five years ago for higher education. I completed my undergraduate studies from Hanover College (Indiana) in Cultual Anthropology.


 * **Research Interests**: South Asia, globalization, transnational movements, diaspora, gender, homosexuality, queer identity, and religion.


 * **Presentations**: Homosexuality in a Global Age: The Origins of the Neoteric Pakistani "gay culture" (Central States Anthropological Society annual conference, 2005)


 * **Awards**: Central States Anthropological Society 2005 Undergraduate Division Student Paper Award. My paper evaluated the role of global processes in the conception of the neoteric upper class “gay culture” in Karachi, and its impact on traditional Pakistani institutions of family and traditional heterosexual marriage.


 * **Languages**: English, Urdu, and Hindi.