Education
Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy in History, expected May 2027
University of Cambridge, Master of Philosophy in World History, June 2019
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts (High Distinction), June 2018

Teaching
Instructor, “Historiography of the Modern Middle East,” Harvard University, 2026
Teaching Fellow, “The First World War,” Harvard University, 2026
Teaching Fellow, “Coffee & the Nighttime,” Harvard University, 2025
Teaching Fellow, “The Making of the Modern Middle East,” Harvard University, 2024
Teaching Fellow, “America as Occupiers & Nation Builders,” Harvard University, 2023

Selected Awards and Fellowships
Harvard GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($55,244 USD), 2026-2027
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship ($38,000 USD), 2024-2025
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Winter Funding, 2022
University of Cambridge Graduate Tutors Prize for Distinction in a Masters Degree, 2019
Smuts Memorial Fund, University of Cambridge, 2019
University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies Studentship (£23,760), 2018-2019
University of Toronto Paul Matthews Memorial Scholarship in the Humanities, 2018

Publications

1. Forthcoming: “The People’s Khilafat: Islamic Universalism and Subaltern Sentiments in Bengal, 1919–1924” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
   

2. Forthcoming: “Feeling the Monsoon: A Brief History of Insurgency in the Hydrosphere” in Amy Gaeta and Alex Adams (eds.), Feeling Contemporary War (Manchester University Press, 2028)
   

3. Under Review: “Hajj, Quarantine, and the Remaking of Kamaran Island, 1881-1951” for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
   

Conference Presentations

1. “The Indian Ocean as Islamic Sensorium.” AAS-in-Asia 2026 (“Islamic Worldmaking and the Politics of Connection”), Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, September 25, 2026

2. “Swadeshi as Sunnah: Subaltern Islam and Global History in Bengal, 1919-1924.” History of Anticolonial Political Thought (“Anticolonial Praxis in South Asian Islam”), UK, May 18, 2026
   

3. “The People’s Khilafat: Mass Politics and Subaltern Islam in Bengal, 1919-1924.” Princeton South Asia Conference (“Small Voice of History”), US, October 30, 2025
   

4. “A River Called Titash: or, a Rheology of Twentieth-Century Bengal.” McGill University Indian Ocean World Centre (“Visual Portrayals of Environmental Crises”), Canada, May 14, 2024
   

5. “Hajj, Quarantine, and the Remaking of Kamaran Island, 1881-1951.” University of Toronto NMCGSA 24th Annual Graduate Symposium ("Dis/Connections: Interactions with the Past in West Asia and North Africa”), Canada, March 11, 2024
   

6. “World-Making after the Ottoman Empire: World Islamic Conferences and Experiments in Muslim Universalism, 1926-1934.” Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop, hosted by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, US, September 18, 2023
   

7. “Time and the Shutter: Allochronism and Colonial Photography in the Middle East.” Boundaries: an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Colloquium, hosted by the University of Toronto History Students’ Association, Canada, 2017