Faculty and Researchers

Sana Aiyar

Associated Faculty, MIT-South Asia Program

Associate Professor, History

Sana Aiyar

Email

aiyar@mit.edu

Website

https://history.mit.edu/people/sana-aiyar/

Expertise

Modern South Asia

Migration

Religious and ethnic politics

Nationalism

Anticolonial activism

South Asian diasporas

Publications

Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar, and Thibaut d’Hubert. “Towards a Burma-Inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (2023): 283–320.

Aiyar, Sana. "Revolutionaries, Maulvis, Swamis, and Monks: Burma’s Khilafat Moment." In Oceanic Islam: Muslim Universalism and European Imperialism, by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, 143–193. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Aiyar, Sana. “Colonialism’s Afterlives and Invocations of Oceanic History.” Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives, edited by Prasannan Parthasarathi, 74-83. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2020.

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