Published: Dec. 26, 2007

o Najeeb Jan, assistant professor of geography, is part Pakistani and attended six years of high school in Pakistan. He currently is researching "political Islam" in Pakistan and has interviewed clerics, students and members of the military. He can be reached at (303) 492-2860 or via e-mail at najeeb.jan@colorado.edu.

o Lucy Chester, assistant professor of history and international affairs, teaches courses on contemporary South Asia and on the British Empire. She is currently revising a book manuscript on the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan and the creation of the Indo-Pakistani boundary. She can be reached at (303) 413-1588 or via e-mail at lucy.chester@colorado.edu.

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