Biography of Ayesha Jalal


Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American student of history who fills in as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the beneficiary of the 1998 MacArthur Fellow. 

born in in Lahore, Jalal learned at Wellesley College before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge where she got her doctorate in 1983. She remained at Cambridge until 1987, filling in as an individual of Trinity College and later as a Leverhulme Fellow. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1985, to function as an individual at the Woodrow Wilson Center and later as Academy Scholar at the Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies. In 1999, she joined Tufts University as a tenured educator. 

Ayesha Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980– 84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Center of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984– 87), Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC (1985– 86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies(1988– 90). She has instructed at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, Tufts University, Columbia University, Harvard University and Lahore University of Management Sciences. 

A main student of history of Pakistan and also South Asia, Jalal has gotten various honors and affirmations including the Prize Fellowship from Trinity College (1980– 84), the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1998-2003) and the Sitara-I-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's most noteworthy non military personnel grants, in 2009. 

Since the production of her first book, The Sole Spokesman, in 1985, Ayesha Jalal has been Pakistan's driving student of history. Taught at Wellesley College in the United States, and Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, she got the esteemed MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 for indicating "remarkable inventiveness and devotion in [her] imaginative interests… " 

Jalal has educated in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University and Columbia University, and is presently filling in as Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. She likewise conveyed the Lawrence Stones Lecture Series at Princeton University in 2011. These addresses offered shape to her book The Pity of Partition - a scholarly history of the life and works of Saadat Hassan Manto, who is additionally firmly identified with her. 

Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books incorporate Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, and The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan. 

I joined Tufts University as a tenured full educator in the fall of 1999. Since 2003, I have held a joint arrangement at the History Department and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and am at present the holder of the Mary Richardson seat. After twofold studying history and political theory from Wellesley College in 1978, I went to the United Kingdom where I got my doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge in 1983. I was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Center of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-87), Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1988-90). Between 1998-2003, I was a MacArthur Fellow. I have instructed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tufts University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. 

She got her BA, studying History and Political Science, from Wellesley College, USA, and her doctorate in history from Trinity College at University of Cambridge, where she kept in touch with her Ph.D. exposition: 'Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan'.