Salman Hussain is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology Department, York University. He completed his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York; has held Dissertation Writing and Visiting Research Fellowships in Law and Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; and has taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include human rights and social movements, law and political violence, and gender and transsexuality. Currently, he is engaged in two research projects. The first one examines human rights activism against ‘disappearances’ in Pakistan and explores how state sovereignty is reformulated at the intersection of the politics of terror and the politics of dissent. This project draws from ethnographic research he has conducted (since 2012) with the families of the ‘missing persons’ and human rights activists in the country. The second project examines the intersection between law, body and sexual biopolitics in postcolonial South Asia; Hussain follows the khwajasarras’ campaign for human rights in the Pakistani legal, public and media spheres and examines how a new language of gender and sexual rights has emerged to contest inequality and marginalization in South Asia. His research has been published in POLAR: Political and Legal AnthropologyReview, Postcolonial Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Anthropologica.