معرفی
Haris A. Durrani is a 2024 Ph.D. graduate from Princeton University’s Department of History, specializing in histories of law, technology, and empire. His research explores intersections between Cold War-era communications satellites, decolonization, and legal/technological reconfigurations of sovereignty. Affiliated with Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies, he has held prestigious fellowships including the NASA Fellowship in Space History and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar award.
- Education: J.D. from Columbia Law School, M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science (University of Cambridge), B.S. in Applied Physics (Columbia Engineering).
His work spans postcolonial theory, history of science, and science fiction studies, with a focus on legal pluralism and Islamicate science. Publications appear in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and The New York Review of Science Fiction. He critiques the Outer Space Treaty and the Bogotá Declaration as legal uprisings against imperial frameworks.
Scientific awards include the Sacknoff Prize (2024) and the Driftless Prize for fiction. He co-founded The Muslim Protagonist, a literary conference, and has contributed to public intellectual discourse via The Washington Post, Tor.com, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Future work includes clerking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2024–25).
