Taimur Reza

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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