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Sarah Waheed is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on South Asian history, with an emphasis on transregional and comparative approaches to South Asian Islam, colonialism, nationalism, and gender studies. She holds a PhD from Tufts University (2011), alongside degrees from Bryn Mawr College (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (M.A.).
Research Interests: Waheed specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia across the India-Pakistan divide. Her work examines intersections of religion, secularism, and colonialism, particularly through analyses of censorship, feminist writings, and legal trials. Her current project investigates the Deccan sultanate’s Chand Bibi, challenging north-centric narratives of pre-modern India and exploring Muslim women’s agency in pre-colonial contexts.
Awards:
- Mellon Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Fulbright Scholar (recent)
Teaching: Courses include HIS 103: Introduction to South Asian History, HIS 367: Partition of India and Creation of Pakistan, and HIS 365: The Indian Ocean World.
Publications: Her 2022 monograph Hidden Histories of Pakistan reinterprets the cultural politics of the left in the Pakistan movement, arguing that religion and secularism were historically co-constituted in South Asia.
