Daniel Majchrowicz

Daniel Majchrowicz is an Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University's Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2015) and specializes in travel writing, global history, and South Asian Muslim identity through Urdu and Hindi literature.

• Co-Director, South Asia Research Forum
• Co-Director, Kaplan-funded "Language of Islam" workshop
• Vice-President, American Institute of Pakistan Studies
• Board Member, Modern Endangered Archives Program

His research explores South Asian Muslims' global imagination through travel narratives, including his monograph The World in Words (Cambridge, 2023) and co-edited Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (Indiana, 2022). His upcoming book Hindi: A Global History examines Hindi's transregional trajectory.

Recent publications include translations of Urdu supernatural stories (The Ajeeb Society, 2026) and analyses of Partition-era border travel. His work bridges literary studies, postcolonial theory, and archival recovery.

Current projects involve Urdu script education (Zer o Zabar, 2023) and literary preservation through the Modern Endangered Archives Program.