Suvaid Yaseen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Suvaid Yaseen is a historian of South Asia, with an interest in contested sovereignties, Islam, and intellectual history. His Ph.D. dissertation examined intersections between Islamic reform, colonial modernity, and literary cultures in Kashmir from the nineteenth century until the present. Yaseen has served as a visiting assistant professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies at Brown University (2023-25) and as a visiting lecturer in history at Mount Holyoke College (2022-23). His teaching interests include histories of South Asia, anticolonial thought, history through film, and Islamic political thought, among others.
Recent Courses Taught
Islam and Politics in Asia
Distinctions
- Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, 2023
- Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in Social Sciences, Brown University, 2023
- History Department Distinguished Dissertation Award, Brown University, 2023
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2021
Selected Publications
- “Poetry as History: Maulana Muhammad Anwar Shopiani and the Ahl-i Hadith Movement in Kashmir.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 34, no. 1 (2024): 53-77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186322000608.
- “Translating Lineaments of Pain through Kashmiri Poetry.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58, no. 4 (2025): 495-499. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2025.a964993.
Appointed to the Faculty
2025Educational Background
Ph.D. and A.M., Brown University
M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University
M.A. and B.A., University of Delhi
