Zeba Khan is a doctoral candidate in Global and International History at Yale University. Her research examines the intellectual history of trans-border connections among reformists, revolutionaries, and utopian thinkers operating across the imperial frontiers of colonial India, the Ottoman Empire, and Soviet Russia, as well as their successor states. Her work focuses on debates surrounding the “Muslim question,” global minority formations, minority legal histories, and alternative imaginaries of empire and sovereignty between the 1890s and 1950s.
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A polyglot with extensive international research experience, Khan works across multiple languages to trace the entangled trajectories of anti-colonial and post-imperial thought. She is the recipient of the Fox International Fellowship (2025–2026) at the University of Cambridge, where she is based at the Faculty of History and Sidney Sussex College, and a Baden-Württemberg Fellow at the Department of History, Heidelberg University. She holds an M.A. in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and an M.Phil. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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