Dr. Zaib Aziz

Biography

Zaib un Nisa Aziz is an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History at the University of Cambridge, specializing in global imperial history with a focus on Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Her research explores the geographic, temporal, and thematic boundaries of historical studies, particularly in the contexts of decolonization, labor internationalism, and global intellectual history. She received her PhD in History from Yale University in 2022, where her dissertation, titled 'Nations Ascendant: Global Campaign Empire Making World', won the John Addison Porter Prize and the Arthur Mary Wright Prize. Aziz has held fellowships at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University and the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and has published extensively on global anti-colonialism and international feminist thought. Currently, she is working on a book project exploring the rise of national self-determination in the twentieth century and is also developing a project on the political discourse surrounding overseas Indian labor during the British Empire. She is keen to support prospective students interested in the study of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, and contributes to teaching in World History at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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