Cohort Year:
2016
Advisor(s):
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Subject Area:
Bengali
Research Interests:
Bangladesh studies; South Asian Islam; Modern Western Political Thought; South Asian Political Thought.
Biography
Taimur is writing a dissertation on the different tropes of alienation that Bengali Muslims had diagnosed and worked through in order to identify with a land they claimed as their own. The dissertation utilizes a variety of literary, historical, and theological sources from the turn of the twentieth century in present day West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Teaching Experience
What Should Democracy Mean Today?: Instructor, Summer, 2021
Classics of Social and Political Thought I: Instructor, Autumn, 2020
Classics of Social and Political Thought II: Instructor, Summer, 2020
Classics of Social and Political Thought III: Instructor, Spring, 2020
Classics of Social and Political Thought I-III: Teaching intern, 2018-19