Ayesha Jalal

Ayesha Jalal
Born	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Residence	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality	Pakistani, American
Fields	History and Sociology
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison Columbia University Lahore University of Management Sciences Tufts University Harvard University
Alma mater	Wellesley College Trinity College, Cambridge
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellows Program, Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Ayesha Jalal PhD (Punjabi, Urdu: عائشہ جلال‎) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Fellow.

Born in Lahore, Jalal studied at Wellesley College before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge where she received her doctorate in 1983. She stayed at Cambridge until 1987, working as a fellow of Trinity College and later as a Leverhulme Fellow. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1985, to work as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and later moved to academy scholar at the Harvard Academy until 1990. In 1999, she joined Tufts University as a tenured professor.

The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.

Ayesha Jalal was born in Lahore in Pakistan to Hamid Jalal, a senior Pakistani civil servant, and is the grandniece of the renowned Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto. She came to New York City at the age of 14 when her father was posted at the Pakistan Mission to the United Nations.

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