BEHIND THE VEIL IN KHULDABAD, INDIA: 14TH CENTURY SUFI SAINTS, 21ST CENTURY ISLAMIC REFORMERS, AND MUSLIM WOMEN

In January of 2009, I traveled to India to interview women in Khuldabad, a small Muslim town in the state of Maharashtra, about religious customs and rituals.With the help of my multilingual friend and New Hampshire colleague from this area, Surekha Shah, I interviewed twenty-nine women using a blend of Urdu and English.These women, from different

How do humans excel at tracking the narrative of a particular speaker with a distracting noisy background? This feat places great demands on the collaboration between speech processing and goal-related regulatory functions.Here, we propose that separate subsystems with different cross-task dynamic activity properties and distinct functional purpose