About
Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include scholarly and manuscript cultures of the Mughal empire and the history of political thought. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
Publications
“Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,” in The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Under contract.
“The Rights of Subjects over the Kingdom: Situating the History of Rights in Early Modern South Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Accepted.
Awards
Hampton New Faculty Research Grant, 2021-23
Von Holst Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2015-16.