Education

Ph.D in History, Harvard University (2021-Present)
M.Phil in World History, University of Cambridge
B.A. in History, Philosophy, University of Toronto


Research Interests

Indian Ocean History
Global Histories of Islam (ca. 1850s)
Modern South Asia and Middle East
Hajj and Muslim Pilgrimage
Epidemics, Quarantine, and Medical History
Philosophy of History
Nineteenth Century Studies
Marxism and Critical Theory


Conference Presentations

“Kamaran Island, Hajj Quarantine, and the Medicalization of the Indian Ocean, 1865–1951.” Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop. Hosted by the Faculty of History at Cambridge. October 21, 2022.


Postponed due to COVID-19: “Hajj, Quarantine, and the Remaking of Kamaran Island: 1881–1951.” McGill Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium. Hosted by McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies. Originally for March 27-28, 2020.


Time and the Shutter: Allochronism and Colonial Photography in the Middle East” for Boundaries: An Undergraduate Research Symposium. Hosted by University of Toronto History Students’ Association. April 26, 2017.


Iranian Modernity and Cinema” for Iranian Modernity: A Graduate Student Symposium. Hosted by University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Diyar. March 31, 2017.


Time and the Shutter: Temporality, Orientalism, and Colonial Photography in the Middle East” for Theory and Method Symposium. Hosted by University of Toronto Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Iranian Studies Seminar Series, and Iran Namag. December 9, 2016.


Selected Fellowships and Awards


Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Winter Funding, 2022
Harvard History Departmental Summer Funding, 2022
Writers’ Fellowship, Wave Art Collective, 2021
Graduate Tutors Prize for Distinction in a Masters Degree, 2019
Smuts Memorial Fund, 2019
Cambridge University Language Program: Students Opportunities Fund, 2019
University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies Studentship, 2018
New College Registrars’ Graduation Award in the Humanities, 2018
University of Toronto Undergraduate Grant, 2017
Paul Matthews Memorial Scholarship in the Humanities, 2017
Course Award for “Film Cultures I”, 2017
New College Student Council In-Course Scholarship, 2016
Paul Matthews Memorial Scholarship in the Humanities, 2015
Dean’s List, 2014-2018