{"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

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\"\"<\/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

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\"\"<\/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

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\"\"<\/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

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\"\"<\/a>DINYAR PATEL<\/strong>
\nPhD candidate, Department of History, GSAS<\/em>
\nField of Study<\/strong>: Modern South Asian History
\nDissertation<\/strong> Title: The Grand Old Man: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Intellectual Foundations of
\nIndian Self-Government
\nDinyar\u2019s \u00a0dissertation is on the evolution of the political philosophy of Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), a prominent early Indian nationalist leader and the first Indian elected to the British Parliament (in 1892). In 1906, Naoroji publicly declared swaraj or Indian self-government to be the goal of the Indian National Congress. Dinyar’s dissertation traces the development of this declaration through Naoroji’s early
\neconomic work, his engagement with semi-autonomous Indian princely states, and attempts to build alliances for Indian reform with British Liberals and socialists. He has just returned to Harvard after three years of archival research in India and the United Kingdom where he was supported by an IIE Fulbright-Nehru and Fulbright Hays DDRA fellowship.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>LYDIA WALKER<\/strong>
\nPhD Candidate, Department of History, GSAS<\/em>
\nField of study:<\/strong> International and diplomatic history; insurgency and intervention; international institutions, Cold War US foreign policy; modern South Asia; and modern Southern Africa.
\nDissertation:<\/strong> Stillborn States: Failed Nationalism in Nagaland and South West Africa, 1960-1966
\nLydia studies the interplay between nationalism and internationalism, activism and politics, claim and counter-claim in the emergence of post-colonial nation-states. She looks at sovereign demands that failed \u2013 what she call Stillborn States \u2013 during the high decolonization of the early 1960s.\u00a0 I look at literal geographic peripheries \u2013 places like Nagaland in India\u2019s Northeast or the contested mandate of South West Africa (independent Namibia as of 1990). In other incarnations, She has been a nuclear policy and scenario researcher for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (New Delhi) and the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative (New York City).\u00a0 She was also \u00a0a professional ballet dancer, and a founding director of the Columbia Ballet Collaborative and Delhi Dance Theater. She received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Columbia University and a master\u2019s degree from Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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