Mohamad Junaid is an associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. His current book project, titled “Rebel Dreams: Postcolonial Empire and Political Subjectivity in Kashmir,” is a historical and ethnographic account of the movement for self-determination in Indian-administered Kashmir. His work on military occupation, space, and memory has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Identities, English Language and Notes, The Funambulist, and several edited volumes including Everyday Occupations (2013), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (2018), and Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (2023).