Z. Fareen Parvez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an affiliate with the UMass Resistance Studies Initiative, and a 2019-20 member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. She is the author of Politicizing Islam: the Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is currently researching the political economy of debt in marginalized Muslim and Dalit communities in India.