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Megan Eaton Robb is the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on South Asian Islam, Urdu print culture, and the intersections of religion with gender, media, and urban life in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She examines how print media shaped Muslim identity formation in colonial India through her analysis of the Madinah newspaper in Bijnor. Her work bridges historical analysis with material culture studies, emphasizing the role of newspapers in constructing public discourse.
Robb's scholarship includes her monograph *Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India* (Oxford UP, 2020) and co-edited volume *Muslims Against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan* (CUP, 2017). Her research interests also extend to gender studies in South Asian Islam, religion and sport, and comparative approaches to religion and urbanization. She has held prestigious fellowships including the Andrew W. Mellon Society Senior Fellowship and the Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary.
Her teaching repertoire includes courses on South Asian history, gender in religion, and the history of print in South Asia. Her recent work explores the global imagination in Muslim South Asian travel writing and the role of calligraphy in textual materiality. She actively engages with contemporary debates on Urdu journalism's legacy and modernity's emotional dimensions in urban contexts.
