Vivek Bald

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Vivek Bald is a documentary filmmaker and scholar whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. His current project traces the lives of South Asian Muslim silk peddlers and merchant seamen who settled within communities of color in the U.S. South, Northeast, and Midwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is the basis for a forthcoming book, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013), documentary film, In Search of Bengali Harlem, and a web space, bengaliharlem.com.

Vivek Bald
Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media
vbald AT mit DOT edu