Sarita Jayanty Mizin's research examines the ways 19th-Century British and American imperialism both facilitated and foreclosed opportunities for women's authorship and alliance across nation, race, and religion. In the interest of contributing to a global account of early women's activism, her work draws attention to solidarities between women of color like Pandita Ramabai, Harriet Tubman, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain as important connections in the intellectual history of feminism. Her la, projects present "case-studies" in how nineteenth-century women writers and activists from Bangladesh, India, Jamaica, and the United States have been resurrected in the form of "state feminists" by government leaders today. She draws attention to how leaders of security states around the world have now weaponized the legacies of early women activists against modern-day feminists who present persistent legal and political challenges to their policies.