Farina Mir

Farina Mir
Occupation(s)	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.

Education

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.

Notable works

• Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab, University of California Press, Wikidata Q60813396
• Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, ed. Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.3, July, 2006: 727-758.

Awards

• John F. Richard Prize in South Asian History from the American Historical Association (2011)
• Bernard Cohn Prize from the Association of Asian Studies (2012)