Dr. Anne Murphy

Dr. Anne Murphy

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.
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Vol. 9, No. 1
Punjab, Punjabi, PunjabiyatBy Dr. Anne Murphy
Understanding language, geography and belonging.
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Vol. 9, No. 1
Two Punjabs and More
A Conversation about Dūje Pāse Toñ.
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Vol. 8, No. 3
True Both to History, and to SolidarityBy Hugh Johnston, Ali Kazima and Anne Murphy
Scholars challenge the Vancouver Mural Festival story of the Taike Sye ye Mural. The authors state: "The quest for truth is directly linked to the quest for social justice. Let us not disregard it. Solidarity must be grounded in both".
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Vol. 5, No. 4
Archival Truth and MemoryDr. Anne Murphy
Reflections on the Archive by Dr. Anne Murphy.
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Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2018/2019
How to Build a Responsive Community Archive
Who gets to be remembered? Who must fight not to be forgotten? Community archives from traditionally/still racialized and marginalized communities are in danger of being lost due to neglect, under funding, and lack of resources. This panel linked scholars and activists who rely on the preservation of these vulnerable materials to explore intersecting histories of race, migration, power, and memory.
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