Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and a professor of South Asian history at Arizona State University.
[3][4] Saikia's early academic career includes teaching history and conducting research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
[5] In 2010, she became the Hardt-Nickachos Endowed Chair in Peace Studies and a South Asian history professor at Arizona State University.
[8][9] Saikia is the author of several books, including In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of Assam (1997),[4] Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai‐Ahom in India (2004), and Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh.
[11] In a review of Fragmented Memories for The Journal of Asian Studies, Jayeeta Sharma writes of how Saikia "posits an alternative view of the precolonial Ahom as a relatively open-status group whose membership came from a diverse set of local peoples participating in a warrior ruling ethos.