Zain Lakhani

Zain Lakhani holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, granted in 2014. Her current project, "Becoming Sexual Subjects: Rape and the Political Meaning of Violence in the Age of Human Rights," explores the relationship between sexual violence, human rights, and the politics of border control. Specifically, her work examines the intersection of gender and human rights language within the politics of immigration, asylum administration, and anti-trafficking policy over the second half of the twentieth century. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including grants from the Charlotte Newcomb Dissertation Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the AAUW. She holds a BA, Honors from Queen’s University in Canada, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow in History and Human Rights at the University of California at Berkeley.