Zeba Khan

Zeba Khan is a doctoral candidate in the History Department’s Global and International History subfield. She has taught courses in the History Department and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her research interests encompass the intellectual history of trans-border connections between intellectuals across the imperial borders of colonial India, the Ottoman Empire, and Soviet Russia and their subsequent states. She delves into debates on 19th and 20th-century Muslim questions, minority politics, and questions of empire, exploring alternative trajectories and imaginaries in metropolitan spaces. Spring of 2024, Khan was selected as a Baden-Wuttermberg Fellow at the University of Heidelberg.

Before coming to Yale, Khan spent several years in Turkey and Russia learning languages and taught at the Asian Studies Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She completed her B.A. History Honors as valedictorian from Kamala Nehru College and Master’s in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She completed her MPhil from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2018, where her dissertation focused on the anti-hegemonic discourses on Islam and Democracy and the role of lived history in it.

Khan served are co-president of Andrew’s Society (2023- 2024) and is co-founder of the Middle Eastern Studies Workshop, at the History Department, YU.

For her writing: https://jnu.academia.edu/ZebaKhan