Anushay Malik

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Anushay Malik is a social historian who works on labour, migration and global anti-colonial movements. She is interested in the exploration of multiple archival registers to explore how people make meaning from the stories they have access to as well as the stories that power has hidden from their view. Recently she has delved into public history and co-curated two exhibitions which both employ counter-storytelling as method to highlight cross-border narratives of migration and resistance that states are not invested in telling. Kaghazi Kashtiyan (Paper Boats) (Indus Valley Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 2023) focuses on Bengali migrants in Pakistan who have been rendered stateless and Truths Not Often Told (Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby, Canada 2023-2025) that focuses on South Asian migration to Canada. Her courses attempt to involve students in this work by taking them on museum visits and exposing them to curatorial and public history work.

Current Projects

Partition of Identity: An exploration of Belonging in Bengalis in Pakistan, 1971- 2021. This Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK) funded project is being led by Dr. Humera Iqbal (UCL) and Dr. Anushay Malik (LUMS). The project will run from 2020 to 2022 and focuses on the community of Bengali ‘migrants’ in Karachi, Pakistan.

Publications

• (Under review) 'The Urban Poor and their Religion: Class and Christianity in the City of Lahore,' scheduled to appear as part of a special issue in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
• (Forthcoming in April 2020) ‘Leftist Parties in Pakistan: Challenges and Limitations’, Pakistan’s Political Parties: Against All Odds, Georgetown University Press.
• 'Public authority and local resistance: Abdur Rehman and the industrial workers of Lahore, 1969-1974,' Modern Asian Studies Vol. 52: 3 (2018) pp. 815-848 
• 'Alternative Politics and Dominant Narratives: Communists and the Pakistani State in the 1950s,' South Asian History and Culture, (4:4): 520-537.
• 'Pro-Poor Urban Development and the Antecedents of Poverty and Exclusion in Lahore,' Pakistan Journal of Urban Affairs, (1: 1): 3-13.