{"id":13850,"date":"2014-09-16T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saihu.wpengine.com\/?p=13850"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:30:07","slug":"meet-our-graduate-student-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu\/2014\/09\/meet-our-graduate-student-associates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Graduate Student Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meet our Graduate Student Associates, 2014-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Every year, SAI supports Graduate Student Associates from across the different schools at Harvard whose research focuses on South Asia. The goal of the SAI Graduate Student Associate program is to establish a community of peers to support original and independent research in South Asia. The GSA program is headed by Parimal Patil<\/strong>, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, and SAI steering committee member. GSAs participate in monthly workshops in which they present their thesis research to one another. In the spring, GSAs organize an end of year conference to showcase their research.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>MARIAM CHUGHTAI \u00a0<\/strong>
\nEd.D. Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education<\/em>
\nField of Study<\/strong>: Education, Religion and Nationalism
\nDissertation:<\/strong> Religious Nationalism and History Education in Pakistan
\nMariam\u2019s thesis examines identity politics and religious nationalism fostered through the Pakistani education system. She has two Masters degrees, also from Harvard, in International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management, and has a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from Rice University.\u00a0\u00a0Mariam founded the Harvard Pakistan Student Group in 2009 with a small community of less than 20 people. Three years later and with over 600 members, HPSG became the first university\u2010wide student organization recognized by Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/a>JOSHUA EHRLICH<\/strong>
\nPhD Candidate, Department of History, GSAS<\/em>
\nField of Study: <\/strong>Imperial history, British Empire, colonial South Asia
\nDissertation:<\/strong>\u00a0The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, 1772-1835
\nJoshua is a John Clive Fellow as well as a Graduate Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He received a BA in History from the University of Chicago. His dissertation explores the languages of knowledge and enlightenment in the ideologies of the Company and its critics.<\/p>\n<\/a>NEELAM KHOJA<\/strong>
\nPhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, GSAS<\/em>
\nField of study:<\/strong> Histories and cultures of Muslim societies
\nDissertation<\/strong>: Connecting South Asian Histories: Indo-Persian Folk Romances in Regional Historiography, 1650-1850
\nNeelam\u2019s research interests include tarikh<\/em> (history) literature in South Asia from the 17th<\/sup>-19th<\/sup> centuries; akhlag <\/em>(ethics) in literature; transnational intellectual networks and the social and cultural history of South Asia. Neelam studied advanced Urdu and Indo-Persian at the American Institute of Indian Studies, in Lucknow, India, and is also proficient in Arabic and French. Her thesis explores histories written in Indi-Persian over two centuries that marked major transformative political, economic, social and cultural changes in South Asia.<\/p>\n