Anne Murphy (Ph.D. Columbia) teaches in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She is a cultural historian whose work focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, with interests in language and literary cultures, the history of the Punjabi language in South Asia and beyond, religious community formations in the early modern and modern periods, oral history, commemoration, historiography, and material culture studies. Current research concerns modern Punjabi literature in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs and in the Diaspora, and the early modern history of Punjabi's emergence as a literary language. She has published one monograph, one edited volume, a co-edited volume, three guest-edited or co-edited journal special issues, numerous book chapters, and articles in History and Theory, Studies in Canadian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and other journals. Her book-length translation of the short stories of Punjabi-language writer Zubair Ahmed, Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore is published by Athabasca University Press.