People

Faculty

Ayesha Jalal, Director
Mary Richardson Professor of History
Department of History and The Fletcher School

Ujjayant Chakravorty
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics

Brian Hatcher
Packard Professor of Theology
Department of Religion

Shafiqul Islam
Professor of Engineering and Water Diplomacy/Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow
School of Engineering and The Fletcher School

Sulmaan Khan
Assistant Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations
The Fletcher School

Kris Manjapra
Professor of History
Department of History

Sarah Pinto
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

Joseph G. Walser
Associate Professor
Department of Religion

Current Graduate Students

Arooj Alam
PhD Program
Research Interests: History of Islam in South Asia, Central Asia, and Middle East, Intellectual and Social History, impact of colonialism and secularism on Quranic exegesis (Tafsir) genre, Affect, Embodiment, and Gender.

Tathagata Dutta
PhD Program
Research Interests: Bay of Bengal regionalism, South Asian and South East Asian transnational history, migration, and Diaspora history.

Satgin Hamrah
PhD Program
Research Interests: South Asia, Middle East, transnational conflict and networks, Sectarianism, Islamism, State and Non-State Conflict

Namrata Jain
PhD Program
Research Interests: South Asia, British Empire, Clothing and Fashion, Textile Trade and Economic Policies, Coloniality and Gender, Indian Ocean Societies

Wendy Adrian Qian
PhD Program
Research Interests: South Asia, Iraq, caste, gender, law

Fiza Shahzad
MA Program
Research Interests: South Asia, Middle East, Gender, Sexuality, and Middle-class Respectability, Islamic Law, Colonial Governance

Cody Sharma
MA Program
Research interests: South Asia, interreligious and interracial relationships, food and policy histories, religion in social institutions

Neelum Sohail
PhD Program
Research Interests: Colonial Governance, Crime, Policing, and Punishment, Transnational History

Daniel Waqar
PhD Program
Research Interests: South Asia, Urdu language and literature, crowd politics, decolonial thought