Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islam

The Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts Connecticut College (CISLA) announces the appointment of Syed Nauman Naqvi as our Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic years 2009-2011. 

This two-year appointment, commencing in fall 2009, emphasizes both teaching and scholarship. The fellowship is one of five at the College supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

CISLA promotes global thinking across academic disciplines and encourages students to become politically concerned, socially engaged and culturally sensitive. In the Center's certificate program, students enhance their major field with intensive foreign language study; a funded international internship; and a senior project that integrates their language proficiency, research interests, and experience abroad.

Dr. Naqvi received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Columbia University in the Department of Anthropology. His dissertation was entitled Mourning Indo-Muslim Modernity: Moments in Postcolonial Urdu Literary Culture. Dr. Naqvi recently finished a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Muslim Literary Cultures in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. At Connecticut College, he will participate in the CISLA senior seminar and the sophomore gateway course "Perspectives on Modern Global Society". He will also teach an International Studies 400-level course in the spring of 2010 called “Muslim Postcolonial Melancholia”. In his second year he will also offer a course each semester in his fields of specialization.

To contact Dr. Nauman Naqvi snaqvi@conncoll.edu.
To view his faculty profile: http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/naqvi.

For more information contact mellonfellows@conncoll.edu.

Last Modified: Monday, September 14, 2009 11:09