معرفی
Rais Rahman is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Wake Forest University, serving since 2008. His academic journey includes a B.A. from St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi (1996), an M.A. and M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1998, 2000), and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (2008). His research focuses on social and cultural history of modern India, South Asian Muslims, and colonial contexts, with a current project on Bombay's cosmopolitan social dynamics. He has authored Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India (2015) and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (2019). Academic leadership includes serving as President of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (2018–2024) and Director of Wake Forest’s Middle East and South Asia Studies Program (2020–2022).
