Faculty

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

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

Kris Manjapra
Assistant Professor
Department of History

Vali Nasr
Professor of International Politics
The Fletcher School

Sarah Pinto
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

Lata Parwani, Ph.D program
Research Interests:
Religious and national identities, history of Sindh, sufism in South Asia, modern Islam.

Shahla Hussain, Ph.D program
Research Interests:
Formation of identities and nation states in post colonial India; Modern separatist and ethnic movements in South Asia

Juhi Shahin, Ph.D program
Research interests:
Socio-political history of Muslims in independent India; Islam and Modernity; South Asian Islam; Dalits and Muslims in India.

 

Sarah Waheed, Ph.D. 2010
"Radical Politics and the Urdu Literary World in the Era of South Asian Nationalisms c.1919 - 1952"

Nilesh Bose, Ph.D., 2009
"Anti-colonialism, Regionalism, and Cultural Autonomy: Bengali Muslim Politics, c.1840s - 1952."

Michele Malter, MA, 2007
"Birth of a Cause: The National and International Discourse on Birth Control in India, 1920-1960's"

Neeti Nair, Ph.D., 2005
"Between Homeland and Nation: The Politics of Punjabi Hindus, 1907-1947"

Roshan Iqbal, MA, 2004
"Perplexing Covenant: Temporary marriage, mut'a in Sunni and Shi'a Thought"

Prachi Deshpande, Ph.D., 2002
"Narratives of pride: history and  regional identity in Maharashtra, India c.1870-1960"

Chitralekha Zutshi, Ph.D., 2000
"Community, state, and the nation: regional patriotism and religious identities in the Kashmir Valley, c. 1880-1953"

Semanti Ghosh, Ph.D., 1999
"Nationalism and the problem of difference: Bengal, 1905-1947"