Madihah Akhter
Madihah Akhter
Field:
Modern South Asia
MA, History,Tufts University, 2012
BA (Hons), History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
I am a fourth year PhD candidate focusing on modern South Asian history. I received a Master’s in history from Tufts University and a Bachelor’s in history from UCLA. At Stanford, I am also completing a PhD minor in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program and am associated with the Abbasi Center for Islamic Studies, the Center for South Asia and the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. My research interests include Islam in South Asia, gender, intellectual history, queer history and global history. My MA thesis focused on feminism and autobiography in Pakistan through the lens of the feminist poet Kishwar Naheed’s Urdu autobiography, Buri Aurat ki Katha(A Bad Woman's Story). My current research concerns sovereignty and gender in princely India in the early twentieth century, specifically the representative, administrative, territorial and legal aspects of sovereignty in Bhopal under the rule of Sultan Jahan Begum.
I am currently a graduate mentor for the VPGE's Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program and a Writing Mentor for the Stanford-CCNY Exchange.
In the News:
"Feminists... in Pakistan?" TheFeministWire.com.
"The Women's Mosque of America: Understanding Diversity and Empowerment" TheFeministWire.com.
"The Fate of Feminism in Pakistan," NY Times
"The Jungle Book," Timeline.com
