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Shahla Hussain is an Associate Professor of South Asian History and a Vincentian Research Fellow (2024-2026) at St. John’s University. Her research explores colonialism, decolonization, diaspora studies, and migration. Her book, Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition (Cambridge University Press, 2021), places Kashmir and Kashmiris at the center of historical discourse, addressing key issues such as freedom, territory, belonging, faith, and self-determination in this conflict-ridden region. The book has received the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History from the American Historical Association and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. It was also shortlisted for the President's Book Prize by the South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA). For more about the book, see her interviews on the Toynbee Prize Foundation and Chapati Mystery.
Hussain is currently working on a new book that examines the land question in Kashmir, as well as an oral history project on South Asian immigrants in New York, supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. She teaches both survey courses on global history and upper-level seminar and graduate courses on modern and contemporary South Asia.