Shahla Hussain

Shahla Hussain is an Associate Professor of South Asian History at St. John’s University. Her research interests include themes of colonialism, decolonization, diaspora studies, and migrations. She is the author of Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition, published by Cambridge University Press, 2021. Currently, she is working on a new book project Voices from the Margins: South Asian Labor Immigrants in New York that stems from her interest in diaspora studies and questions of citizenship and belonging. She teaches survey level courses on global history, and upper-level seminar and graduate courses on modern and contemporary South Asia.