Nayanika Mookherjee is a Reader of Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Durham University. She has published extensively on her research interests: anthropology of violence, gendered violence during wars, ethics and aesthetics. Recent publications include The Spectral Wound. Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Foreword by Veena Das, Duke University Press, 2015), guest editing the special issue on Aesthetics, Politics, Conflict (Journal of Material Culture, 2015), ‘The self in South Asia’ (Journal of Historical Sociology, 2013) and co-editing (with Christopher Pinney, 2011) the JRAI (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute) Special Issue: ‘The aesthetics of nation’. Currently she is finishing her manuscript 'Arts of Reconciliation' (contracted with Stanford UP). As a British Academy fellow, her new research is on transnational adoption and conflict.