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Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History and the director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University. She also holds a joint appointment at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

A graduate of Wellesley College, she has a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. She was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; a Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge; a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C.; and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Between 1998-2003, she was a MacArthur Fellow. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tufts, Columbia, and Harvard Universities.

A prolific author, her publications include The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (Cambridge, 1985 and 1994); The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence (Cambridge, 1990); and Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (Cambridge, 1995). Jalal’s most recent book is The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics (Harvard University Press, 2014). 

She teaches courses on South Asia, Islam, nationalism, colonialism, and international development.