UBC Political Science is excited to announce that Dr. Nazmul Sultan will be joining the department.
Dr. Nazmul S. Sultan
Dr. Nazmul S. Sultan is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2020.
His research interests include the history of political thought, empire and anticolonial thought, and popular sovereignty. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Waiting for the People: Colonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India. It explores the question of popular sovereignty in modern Indian political thought and offers a new interpretation of the anti-colonial democratic project. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, among others.
Dr. Nazmul Sultan will start in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor.
