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Zoya Sameen

Assistant Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Telephone: 92 21 34869872

Introduction

Zoya Sameen is an Assistant Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Aga Khan University. She is a historian of gender, law, and empire in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia. Her current book project examines the defiant responses of Indian and European women to legal regimes of policing prostitution from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in colonial India. Her research interests also include writing South Asian history in transnational perspective and understanding gender history at the intersection of law, technology, and environment. Prior to joining Aga Khan University, she taught for two years as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago from where she also received her PhD in History.

Education

PhD, History, University of Chicago, 2022
MA, History, University of Chicago, 2016
MA, Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2014
BA (Hons.), History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2012

Current areas of teaching

I teach across various topics in modern South Asia, along with colonialism, nationalism, and decolonization, women's and gender history, and historical methods. My current and upcoming courses include:

Pakistan Studies
Historical Foundations

Experience

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Department of History and the College, University of Chicago, 2022-24

Awards and honours

ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, 2021-22
Bessie Price Prize Preceptorship in History, University of Chicago, 2019-20
AIPS Research Grant, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 2017

Created on:09/20/2024 Last modified:04/09/2025

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