Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Nomaan Hasan is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. His dissertation, titled “Experiments in Collective Selfhood on the Last Days of Democracy,” examines how minoritized groups imagine and articulate political identity under conditions of democratic disrepair. Fieldwork for the project was conducted in northern India with the support of the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and several intramural grants. This research has appeared or is forthcoming in Anthropology and Humanism and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Prior to Brown, Hasan studied sociology at the Delhi School of Economics.