Mohamad Junaid is a cultural anthropologist and writer.

His work focuses on postcolonial colonialism, political subjectivity, and visual politics. His writings on military occupation, counterinsurgency, space, and violence in Kashmir have appeared in academic journals, edited volumes, anthologies, magazines, and media in South Asia and the US.

His current book projects include a historical and ethnographic account of the Tehreek movement for self-determination in Indian-controlled Kashmir and an experimental ethnography that critically engages writing practice, narrative form, memory, and dissident imaginaries under military occupation.

Junaid is an associate professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he teaches courses including Visual Anthropology, Eco-disaster and Cultural Imagination, After Capitalism, Culture, Power, Protest, and Ethnographies of South Asia.

He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and his MA and M.Phil. in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

He grew up in Kashmir.