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Currently completing her doctoral work in sociology at Rutgers University, Jomaira Salas Pujols will join the faculty of the Sociology Program at Bard College in fall 2022. Her work focuses on race, place, education, and Black girlhood, with her doctoral dissertation examining the consequences of movement on Black girls’ perceptions of self, their identities, and their worlds. “I look forward to supporting Posse Scholars as a faculty member at Bard,” Jomaira says, “and to joining an institution that is so deeply committed to the public good.”

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On the 50th anniversary of the 1971 civil war in East Pakistan, Sanjib Baruah, professor of political studies, wrote about its destabilizing effects and impact on India’s national identity for the Indian Express. “The standard story is that most refugees returned home soon after the liberation of Bangladesh,” Baruah writes. “This is partly responsible for the unfounded myth that India’s domestic political order was insulated from the refugee influx. This is, of course, not how the refugee influx is remembered in Assam and other Northeastern states.”

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