Ph.D., Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, 2025
Courses Taught
ATH 185 Cultural Diversity in the US
Introduction to Anthropology
Telling Migration Stories
America and Middle Eastern Wars
Exploring the Urban Environment
Research Interests
I am a historical anthropologist of South Asian diasporas and Indian Ocean mobilities. My interdisciplinary scholarship bridges linguistic and cultural anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, history, and urban studies. My research specializations include belonging and homes, masculinity, transnational labor, migrant racialization, autoethnography, storytelling, humor, face to face interactions, and sociality. Regionally, my research focuses on migrations from Pakistan to the Arabian Peninsula. My research studies the entwinement of class and gender in contests over belonging in migrants’ home cities. It explores how masculinity structures key processes of migrations: migration brokerage, self-fashioning, and return mobilities.
Publications and Presentations
Hussain, S. (2025). Migrants at Home: Gulf Migrations, Masculinities, and the Politics of Return in Pakistan. ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.
