Mobeen Hussain

Former co-editor-in-chief 

3rd year PhD student in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | MA in Contemporary History and International Politics, University of York | BA in English and History, University of York

Current research: intersections between racial politics, gender and beauty in colonial India and postcolonial South Asia, c.1900-1960s.

Interests: Histories of people of colour | intersectional activism and spaces | public history | history on TV and film | public commemoration practices | archival practices.

amh215@cam.ac.uk | @amhuss27

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/mobeen-hussain

 

Blog posts:

• ‘Wiley Digital Archives: enhancing research capabilities’, 4 February 2020.
• ‘Female Pills‘, 2019 Advent Calendar, 13 December 2019.
• ‘Current affairs or old news? DHP at the Festival of Ideas‘, 22 October 2019.
• ‘Serving ex-servicemen? Demobilisation schemes in India after the Second World War’, 9 July 2019.
• ‘Book Review: Samia Khatun, Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia’, 28 May 2019.
• ‘Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope’, 30 April 2019.
• ‘Travelling to India: a handy list for the whole family’, 2018 Advent Calendar, 6 December 2018.
• ‘Critiquing cultural spaces: an interview with Alice Procter of the Uncomfortable Art Tours’, 4 December 2018.
• ‘The Wagah Border: a site of uncomfortable contradictions’, 7 November 2018.
• ‘The challenges and potential of Lahori libraries and archives’, 2 October 2018.
• ‘Constructing an archive: a reflection on British Library collections’, 12 June 2018.
• ‘Expressions of “Russian exceptionalism”: a historical continuity?’, 3 April 2018.
• ‘Resistance in Russia: A Reflection on International Women’s Day’, 13 March 2018.
• ‘Feminist activism in the Black Cultural Archives’, 2017 Advent Calendar, 13 December 2017.
• ‘Capturing the Raj: visual narratives of British India’, 5 December 2017.