I am primarily a labor historian with a geographical focus on South Asia. My teaching and research interests focus on labor movements with particular attention to the space of the city and the way in which it affects worker organization and possibilities. This idea, of possibilities, underlies most of my work and was the main focus of my PhD dissertation that explored how expansive political imaginations, made possible by the end of WWII and decolonization, made workers in Pakistan think that a revolution was possible. I spent some time as a research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam working on a comparative project exploring how Partition in 1947 impacted the labor networks of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian sea faring workers. I moved back to Pakistan in 2014 and joined LUMS (Lahore University of Management Services) as an Assistant Professor where I have been teaching courses on global histories of migration, nationalism in South Asia, labour and urban history and Pakistani history.
