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Hadia Akhtar Khan

Post-doctoral Associate, ILR School, Cornell University

Hadia Akhtar Khan is a socio-cultural anthropologist. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Cornell. Khan's research is on how migration is changing family, class, caste, and gender relations in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her research interests include political economy, gender and sexuality, and the anthropology of kinship, with a focus on South Asia. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Centre for Ethnography (UTSC). She is also an editor for Jamhoor.org.