Zeba Khan

Zeba Khan is a doctoral candidate in the Global International History Department at Yale University. Khan has taught courses on History and Global Affairs at Jackson School of Global Affairs and Modern Europe in the History department. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of trans-border connections between reformists/revolutionaries/utopians across the imperial borders of colonial India, the Ottoman Empire, and Soviet Russia and their successor nation-states. She focuses on debates on the Muslim question, global minority, minority legal history, questions of empire, and alternative trajectories/imaginaries in metropolitan areas between the 1890s and 1950s. Khan has been awarded the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium to research at Heidelberg University’s History Department between 2024-2025. She is a polyglot with research experience in several countries across the globe. She has a Master’s in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and an MPhil from SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the founder of Why History, a platform for Public history discussions, and also co-founder of the Middle Eastern Studies Workshop at the History Department, YU.

 

Khan brings several years of professional experience in public policy, constitutional research, and academic administration. She has held roles at institutions including the Parliament of India, the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM), and various offices at Yale University such as the Office of International Affairs, the Office of Career Strategy, and the Yale College Dean’s Office. Her research has been supported by a range of prestigious programs and centers, including the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, the International Security Studies Program at the Jackson School, the Blue Centre, South Asian Studies Council, the MacMillan Center, and the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium.

 

 

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