AYESHA JALAL Department of History Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 617-627-2133 ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu EXPERIENCE 1999- TUFTS UNIVERSITY/FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY Mary Richardson Professor of History 1998-2003 MACARTHUR FOUNDATION Fellow 1998-99 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Visiting Associate Professor Taught modern South Asia at the Department of History 1991-99 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Associate Professor Taught modern South Asia at the Department of History 1990-91 TUFTS UNIVERSITY Associate Professor Taught modern South Asia at the Department of History 1987-90 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison. Assistant Professor Joint Appointment at the Department of Political Science and the Center of Development Studies; taught comparative politics with special reference to South Asia and Third World development 1988-90 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Conducted inter-disciplinary studies and research combining history and political science with special reference to modern South Asia as well as selected countries of West Asia 1
1984-87 CENTRE OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Leverhulme Fellow Engaged in research on the history of post-independence Pakistan in the international context of the Cold War era 1985-86 WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Fellow Engaged in research on history and politics of post-colonial states in South Asia 1980-84 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Prize Fellow Conducted research in modern South Asian history; supervised undergraduates for the Historical Tripos EDUCATION: 1978-1982 TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Ph.D., 1983 Ph.D. dissertation in History: 'Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan' 1974-78 WELLESLEY COLLEGE B.A., 1978 Double Major: History and Political Science PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008) Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since c.1850s (London and New York, Routledge, 2000; Delhi: Oxford University Press and Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2001) Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, joint author with Sugata Bose second edition. (London: Routledge, 2004, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004) 2
Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, joint editor with Sugata Bose, joint author of introduction and author of article Exploding Communalism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997) Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: a Comparative and Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 in hardcover and paperback; Indian edition by New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1995; and Pakistani edition by Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 1995) The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Pakistani hardcover and paperback editions by Lahore: Vanguard Press, 1991; Indian hardcover edition by New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1992) The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985; second paperback edition with new preface, 1994; Pakistani hardcover edition by Lahore: Vanguard Press, 1985 and paperback edition by Lahore: Sang-e- Meel, 1992; Indian hardcover edition by Bombay: Orient Longman, 1985 and new paperback edition by New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1994; translated in Japanese. BOOKS IN PREPARATION: Battle for Pakistan, (forthcoming) Reader for Modern South Asia (companion volume to Modern South Asia based on selections from primary sources) with Sugata Bose (Routledge) Oxford Companion of Pakistan History - general editor Jinnah, (Indiana University Press and Permanent Black) ARTICLES: - Fallacies of Mainstreaming Jihad, Dawn, February 14, 2009 - Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal s Philosophy to Sen s Ethical Concerns in Arguments for a Better World: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement v. 1: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, (Oxford University Press, 2008) - Pakistan s Present in India s Future, Seminar (New Delhi), annual number, December 2008 - Jihad, Neue Zurcher Zeitung (Zurich), July 2008) - An Uncertain Trajectory: Islam's Contemporary Globalization, 1971-1979 in The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (Harvard University Press, Forthcoming, 2009) - Rustled Silences: the Past in Pakistan s Present, in Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, edited by Salima Hashmi (Asia Society, Forthcoming 2009) 3
- Jinnah entry for World Book Encyclopedia, 2008 -Fata - A Most Dangerous Place Meeting the Challenge of Militancy and Terror in Pakistan s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, member of advisory team led by Shuja Nawaz, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, January 2009 -Foreword for commemorative volume of M.P.Bhandara s essays, (Vanguard Press, Lahore, Forthcoming 2009) -Teens in Pakistan, content advisor for publication by Compass Point Books, 2008 - Exploding Communalism: The Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia, reprint of article in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (ed.), Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, Oxford University Press: New Delhi, December 2008 - 'Jinnah's Vision of Pakistan', Dawn, special supplement on 60 th anniversary of Pakistan's independence, December 31, 2007 - Striking a Just Balance: Maulana Azad as a Theorist of Trans-national Jihad, Modern Intellectual History April 2007 Rethinking Communalism: India, Pakistan and the Challenge of Globalization in Deana Heath and Chandana Mathur (eds.), Communalism and Globalisation: A South Asia Reader, (London, Routledge, Forthcoming) - Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue to be published in a volume edited by Kris Manjapra entitled Zones of Intellectual Exchange between South Asia and Europe, 1870-1945 (Forthcoming) - In the Shadows of Modernity? Theology and Sovereignty in South Asian Islam in Charles Cohen and Leonard Kaplan (eds.), The Place of Theology in the Liberal State and the Globalized World (Lexington Press, Forthcoming) - Mr Ravana: Slay the Myth, Outlook, July 4, 2005 - Between Myth and History: the Lahore Resolution Revisited, Dawn, March 23, 2005 - Beyond the Symbolic to the Significant, to be published in an edited volume on Pakistani National icons (Forthcoming) - India and Pakistan and the New Order, National Review, August 2004 - A Letter to India: in Manto s Spirit, Economic and Political Weekly, November 2-9, 2002 - Musharraf, The World Book Encyclopedia, 2003 - Pakistan, The World Book Encyclopedia, 2003. - Methodologies and Sources for Studying Pakistani Women, Encyclopedia for Women and Islamic Cultures, forthcoming - Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, c.1870-1914, in Leila Fawaz and C.A.Bayly (eds.), Modernity and and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, with collaboration from Robert Ilbert, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. - South Asian Nationalism, The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Academic Press publication, 2000 - Nation-States of South Asia, Encyclopedia of Britannica - forthcoming - Kashmir : The Deepening Scars, The News, February 2000 4
-'On the Wrong Side of History? U.S-Pakistan Relations in the 21st Century', Dawn, May 2-4, 2000 -'Identity Crisis: Rethinking the Politics of Community and Region in South Asia', Harvard International Review, Summer 1999, vol.xxi, no.3 - Pakistan s Tangle: Conflicting Security and Economic Interests, Government and Opposition, Winter, 1999. - Nation, Reason and Religion: Punjab s Role in the Partition of India, Economic and Political Weekly, August 8, 1998 (G.M.Trevelyan Seminar, University of Cambridge) -'Exploding Communalism: the Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia', in Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997) - Ideology and the Struggle for Democratic Institutions in Victoria Schofield (ed.), Fifty Years of Pakistan, (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997) -'Women's Rights and Civil Society in Pakistan, Democratic Rights of Women in Pakistan Conference Report, (Montreal: Centre d'etudes et de ressources sur l'asie du Sud, 1996) -'Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining', International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 1995 (conference on Nationalizing the Past sponsored by SSRC, Goa, India, May 1993) -'The State and Political Privilege in Pakistan', Myron Weiner and Ali Banuazizi (eds.), The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan,(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994) -'Pakistan', in Joel Kreiger (ed.), Oxford Companion of World Politics, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) -'The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan', Deniz Kandiyoti (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, (London: Macmillan, 1991) -'Kashmir Scars: A Terrible Beauty is Torn', The New Republic, 23 July 1990 -'State-Building in the Post-War World: Britain's Colonial Legacy, American Futures and Pakistan', Sugata Bose (ed.), South Asia and World Capitalism, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990) -Pakistan: A Dialogue between History and Politics, Manzur Qadir Memorial Lecture, Lahore, December 1989 -'Towards the Baghdad Pact: South Asia and Middle East Defence in the Cold War', The International History Review, XI:3, (August 1989) -'The Politics of a Constitutional Crisis: Pakistan, April 1953-May 1955', Anthony Low (ed.), Constitutional Heads and Political Crises in the Commonwealth since World War II, (London: Macmillan, 1988) -'Pakistan: 1947-1985', Ainslee T.Embree (ed.), Encyclopedia of Asian History, 1988 -'India's Partition and the Defence of Pakistan: an Historical Perspective', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, (May, 1987) -'Inheriting the Raj: Jinnah and the Governor-Generalship Issue', Modern Asian Studies, 19 (1985) 5
-'Alternative to Partition: Muslim Politics Between the Wars' with A. Seal in C.J. Baker, G. Johnson and A.Seal (eds.), Power, Profit and Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) Review Articles: -'Secularists, Subalterns and the Stigma of Communalism', Modern Asian Studies, (March, 1996) -'Post-Orientalist Blues: Cultural Fusions and Confusions', Indian Economic and Social History Review, (January, 1990) -'Pakistan's Predicament', Third World Quarterly, (July, 1989) -'Azad, Jinnah and the Partition', Economic and Political Weekly, (May 27, 1989) COURSES TAUGHT: History of Modern South Asia South Asia in the Twentieth Century Islam and the West Nationalism and its Critics Contemporary South Asia Islam in the South Asian Subcontinent Religion, Law and Misplaced Secularity: South Asia, 1000-2000 Religion, the Arts and Misplaced Secularity: South Asia, 1000-2000 Transcultural Historiography Decolonization in Asia Comparative Politics Historical Perspectives on International Development PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND SERVICES: - Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies - Member Editorial Board, Contemporary South Asian Studies Series, Cambridge University Press until 2003 - Member Editorial Board, Third World Quarterly -Member, Advisory Board, Stuyvesant High School, New York - Member of the International Predissertation Fellowship Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council since 1996-2005 - Reviewer for the American Council of Learned Scholars (2002-2004, 2007) - Advisory Board, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences [LUMS], Lahore 6
7 - Advisor for Core Curriculum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi - Member Editorial Board, research journals published by Bahuddin Zakariya and Jamshoro Universities, Pakistan PRIZES AND AWARDS: 2005 Carnegie Scholar 1998 Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation 1994 Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, New York 1985 Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1980 Prize Fellowship of Trinity College, University of Cambridge 1978 Wellesley Scholar, Wellesley College 7