Ayesha Jalal

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Ayesha Jalal

Born 1956 (age 64–65)

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Nationality Pakistani, American

Alma mater Wellesley College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Spouse(s) Sugata Bose

Awards MacArthur Fellows Program, Sitara-i-Imtiaz

 Scientific career

Fields History and Sociology

Institutions University of Wisconsin–Madison

Columbia University

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Tufts University

Harvard University

Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, Urdu: ‫ )عائشہ جالل‬is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as

the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of
the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.[1][2] Ayesha is married to Indian historian and
politician Sugata Bose. [3]

Contents

 1Education
 2Early life
 3Career
 4Awards
 5Praise
o 5.1Books
o 5.2Chapters in books
 6References
 7External links

Education[edit]
Born in Lahore in 1956,[4] Ayesha Jalal studied at Wellesley College before moving
to Trinity College, Cambridge[1][4] where she received her doctorate in 1983.[4] She stayed
at Cambridge until 1987, working as a fellow of Trinity College and later as
a Leverhulme Fellow. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1985, to work as a fellow at
the Woodrow Wilson Center and later as Academy Scholar at the Harvard University's
Academy for International and Area Studies. In 1999, she joined Tufts University as a
tenured professor.[5][6][7][8]
The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.[9]