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Zehra Hashmi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is an anthropologist and historian researching identification technologies in South Asia. Her work explores the everyday workings of surveillance and securitization in Pakistan through the intersection of kinship, migration, and postcolonial and colonial bureaucracy. She received her PhD from the Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan.

Maira Hayat is a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. Dr Hayat works at the intersection of bureaucracy, law and environment. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Ecologies of Water Governance in Pakistan: The Colony, the Corporation and the Contemporary, and teaching on coloniality, climate change, and environmental politics. Hayat graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan in 2008 and holds an MSc in social anthropology from the University of Oxford.