Education
Ph.D in History, Harvard University (2021-Present)
Research Interests
Indian Ocean History
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.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
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